Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836

Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Carpenter Muhammad Qasim, James M., Shehzad, Anjum, Zia, Ahmed, Khan, Muhammad Rafique, Mastoi, Muhammad Ishaque, Naz, Falak, Ilyas, Muhammad, Shah, Mazafar & Bhatti, Abdul Rauf, 2017, The vespid fauna of Pakistan, Zootaxa 4362 (1), pp. 1-28 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6008548
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scientific name	Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836
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Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Federal Capital area: Islamabad : NARC, 2.ix.05, A. Rehman, ♀; Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa: Swat: Qadirnagar, 20.xi.07, Leg. F. Naz, ♀; Azad Jummu and Kashmir: Pir Chinasi, 6.viii.07, Leg. Anjum, ♀ ; Punjab: Rawalpindi: Ayub Park , 06.vii.2015, Leg. M. Qasim, ♀; (EX. NIM) .

Remarks: Earlier Das & Gupta (1989) reported this species from Pakistan. Dvořák (2007) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral, Nathia Gali. Mahmood et al. (2012) recorded it from Islamabad; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Swat, Charbagh, Shangla, Dir, Shougran, Garihabibullah, Jaba, Abbottabad, Nathia gali; Gilgit-Baltistan: Diamar, Gilgit, Chilas and Nomal. Siddiqui et al. (2015) recorded it from Islamabad; Punjab: Rawalpindi, Murree, Attock Jhelum and Chakwal. Shah (2015) reported from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Battagram, Allai, Abbottabad, Havelian, Mansehra, Oghi and Balakot. Faiz et al. (2016) reported it from Gilgit-Baltistan: Hunza-Nagar, Ghizer, Gilgit and Skardu.

Distribution: Afghanistan; Bhutan; China; India; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam; introduced into Belgium; France; Italy; Korea; Portugal; Spain; Tsushima; Yemen (Carpenter & Kojima 1997; Dvořák 2007; Mahmood et al. 2012).