Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852

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 : 22

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:45FCB8FE-AA97-42DE-880A-E03B01D544B5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6008542
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scientific name	Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852
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Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Federal Capital area: Islamabad, 23.vii.05, Leg. Asad, ♀; Azad Jummu and Kashmir : Pir Chinasi , 5.viii.07, Leg. Anjum, ♀; (Ex. NIM) .

Remarks: Shah (2015) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Abbottabad and Mansehra. However, material from Islamabad and Azad Jummu and Kashmir was also examined.

Distribution: Bhutan; China; India; Japan; Korea; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Russia; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Taiwan; Vietnam (Carpenter & Kojima 1997; Shah 2015).