Phimenes flavopictus (Blanchard, 1849)

Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, Zootaxa 4171 (1), pp. 1-50 : 20

Phimenes flavopictus (Blanchard, 1849)

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore , GKVK, 916 m, 16 . vi.1979, 1 ♀, coll. CBG; 5. vii.1980, 1 ♂, coll. GTVR; Allalasandra, vii.1979, 1 ♀, coll. Gopal; 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 18. vii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. N.M. Lepakshi; 2, 5, 19, 25. iv.2009, 1 ♀, 3♂, coll. R.N. Geetha; 7. iv.2009, 1 ♂; 3, 23. x.2009, 2 ♂, coll. H.C. Latha; 15.iii, 19. iv.2009, 1 ♂, 1♀; 1. ii.2014, 2 ♀, coll. A. Pannure; 20. xi.2013, 4 ♀, coll. S. Najeer. Chikkaballapur, Nandi hills, 1271 m, 13°20' N 77°41' E, 3. iii.2013, 1 ♀, coll. V.V. Belavadi; 3. iii.2013, 1 ♀, M. Thippaiah. Chikkmagaluru, Mudigere, 4. ii.2013, 1 ♀, coll. UG483; 8. x.2014, 1 ♀, coll. B.K. Pooja; Malaya Marutha , 12. v.2011, 1 ♀, coll. H.M. Yeshwanth. Dakshina Kannada, Moodabidri, 80 m, 13°06' N 75°06' E, 25 . vii.2015, 1 ♀, coll. C. Prashantha. Hassan, Agriculture college, 10. x.2014, 1 ♀, coll. H.P. Kavya. Kodagu, Kirgoor , 18. iv.1979, 1 ♀, coll. Girish. Kolar, Horticulture college, 830 m, 13°07' N 78°10' E, 16 . xii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. UG. Koppal, Munirabad (Pampavana), 466 m, 15°33' N 76°33' E, 5. xii.2012, 1 ♀; 4. ii.2013, 1 ♀, coll. S. Najeer. Tumkur, Sira, 657 m, 13°74' N 76°90' E, 11. v.2014, 1 ♂, coll. S.N. Bhagyasree. Uttara Kannada, Sirsi, Yana, 262 m, 14°35' N 74°50' E, 21. xi.2012, 1 ♀, coll. R. Girish. Kerala: Ernakulam, 4 m, 9°59' N 76°17' E, 14. viii.2011, 1 ♀, coll. T.V. Aswathy. Trivandrum, 1. vi.2014, 1 ♀, coll. Anjali.

Distribution. India: Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.— China, Hong Kong, Indonesia [Sumatra, Krakatau], Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam ( Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2010; Girish Kumar 2013b; Nguyen et al. 2016).