Vespa tropica (Linnaeus, 1758)

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.6008546
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scientific name	Vespa tropica (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Federal Capital area: Islamabad : NARC, 22.v.05, Leg. Amjad, ♀; Islamabad: Margalla hills, 23.viii.06, Leg. Asad, ♀ ; Punjab: Rawalpindi: Ayub Park, 06.vii.2015, Leg. M. Qasim, ♀; Azad Jummu and Kashmir : Rawalakot, 13.iv.06, ♀; Rawalakot, 17.vii.06, Leg. Zahid, ♀; (Ex. NIM) .

Remarks: Chaudhry et al. (1966) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Hazara region. Dvořák (2007) reported this species from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral: Bamboret valley: Brun. Mahmood et al. (2012) reported it from Islamabad; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Abbottabad, Peshawar. Siddiqui et al. (2015) reported it from Punjab: Attock, Rawalpindi and Chakwal. Shah (2015) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Battagram, Allai, Abbottabad, Havelian, Ayubia, Mansehra, Balakot, Oghi and Baffa.

Distribution: Afghanistan; Bhutan; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia; Laos; Myanmar; Malaysia; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Papua New Guinea; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam (Carpenter & Kojima 1997; Dvořák 2007; Mahmood et al. 2012).