Vespa affinis affinis (Linnaeus, 1764)

Mazumdar, P. C., Kumar, P. Girish & Kazmi, S. I., 2022, New distributional records of family Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (2), pp. 219-223 : 222

6. Vespa affinis affinis (Linnaeus, 1764) *

Apis affinis Linnaeus, 1764 , Mus . Ludovicae Ulricae Reginae , 417, ♀, des. “in Calidis regionibus” (ZMUU).

Vespa affinis affinis ; Bequaert, 1936, Treubia , 15: 347.

Material examined: India: Andaman and Nicobar Island , Nicobar Islands, East-West Road , 1♀, 11.xi.2018, Coll. K.C. Gopi and Party, NZC Regd. No. 24925/H3 .

Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Indonesia; Japan; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam; New Zealand (Girish Kumar and Sharma, 2014).