Rhynchium brunneum brunneum ( Fabricius, 1793 )

Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4784 (1), pp. 1-87 : 38-39

a) Rhynchium brunneum brunneum ( Fabricius, 1793)

Vespa brunnea Fabricius, 1793: 264 . Type data: Syntype, UZMC. Type locality: “Tranquebariae”.

Odynerus brunneus ; Latreille, 1806: pI. 14, fig.3.

Rhynchium brunneum ; Spinola, 1808: 189.

Rhynchium haemorrhoidale var. brunneum ; de Saussure, 1862: 190.

Rhynchium quinquecinctum var. brunneum ; Dalla Torre, 1894: 45.

Rynchium khandalense Dusmet, 1930: 105 .

Rhynchium brunneum brunneum ; Gusenleitner, 2006: 692.

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Devrayanadurga , 14.ii.2017, 4 ♀ & 3 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; He- sarghatta, 15.v.2013, 1♀, Coll. Viyolla; Coorg, Chettahalli , 06.x.2007, 1♀, Coll. Yadava Babu ; Kundapur , 08.ii.2006, 1♀, Coll. Naveen Kumar.

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambo-

dia; China (including Taiwan); Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Marianas; Myanmar; Nepal; New Britain; Pakistan; Palau; Seychelles; Thailand; Vietnam. ( Gusenleitner 2006, Gusenleitner 2011, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2013, Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2013, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014b, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015 b, Pham & Li 2015, Pannure et al. 2016, Rafi et al. 2017, Nidup et al. 2018, Gawas et al. 2019).