Phimenes flavopictus (Blanchard 1840)

Nugroho, Hari, Kojima, Jun-Ichi & Ubaidillah, Rosichon, 2013, Review of potter wasps with a petiolate metasoma excluding so-called " Zethinae " (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in the Lesser Sunda Islands of the Indonesian Archipelago, Zootaxa 3608 (1), pp. 1-25 : 15

Phimenes flavopictus (Blanchard 1840)

Represented by 16 subspecies, this polytypic species occur throughout the south-eastern part of continental Asia and western half of the Malay Archipelago, from South India in the west to Borneo and Palawan, and the Lesser Sunda Islands, Damma Island and Kei Islands in the east, and also in Taiwan and southern islands in the Ryukyu Islands (van der Vecht 1959). Van der Vecht (1959) gave detailed descriptions of color pattern of all the subspecies. In the Lesser Sunda Islands, P. f. blanchardi and P. f. timorensis have been recorded.

Distribution. India (including Nicobar and Andaman Is.), Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Japan (Ryûkyû Is.), Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak), Philippines, Indonesia [Sumatra (including Simalur I., Nias I., Enggano I., Mentawai Is., Batu Is.), Krakatau, Kalimantan, Java (including Panaitan I., Bawean I., Karimunjawa and Kangean Islands), Bali, Lesser Sunda (Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Komodo, Flores, Timor, Wetar I.), Tanimbar (Yamdena I.), Moluccas (Kei Is., Damma I.)].