Distribution: Western Europe, Asia Minor, Georgia, SE Kazakhstan, N Kyrghyzstan (Milko, 1999), Mongolia, China (Taiwan), Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu; North America. Russia: European part, N Caucasus, Siberia to Chukotka Peninsula and Kamchatka, N Primorye, Southern Kuriles: Kunashir (Tobias, 1978; Kurzenko, 1995; Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima. D. a. montivaga Sk. Yamane, 1982 occur in Kunashir and Japan (Kurzenko, 1995).
Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN, and literature: Russia: Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Province: the Polar Urals: 156 km from the Chum railway station; Nadym (ZIN collection); Novosibirsk Province: Boyarka (Kolyvan' district); Altai Republic: between Abai and Otkova (ZIN collection), Bele on Lake Teletskoe (ZIN collection); Krasnoyarsk Province: Eniseisk (ZIN collection); Irkutsk Province: Yurty (ZIN collection), Bunbuiskoe (ZIN collection); Chita Province: Chita (ZIN collection); Yakutia: Kochegarovo in 100 km SW from Olekminsk along the Lena river (ZIN collection), Yakutsk (ZIN collection), 232 km of the road from Khandyga to Magadan, Bulun of river Lena down flow (ZIN collection); Chukotka: river Bol'shaya (now - Velikaya) headwater in 63o01' N 171o50' E (ZIN collection); Kamchatka: river Dranka (ZIN collection); Amur Province: Zeya Nature Reserve; Khabarovsk Province: Khabarovsk vic.; Sakhalin: without locality (Suprunenko, ZIN collection), 12 km NE from Aniva; Kunashir (Kurzenko, 1995).
Note: the species was recorded also from Buryatia, Kamchatka, Chukotka, N part of Primorskii Krai (Kurzenko, 1995).
Taxa described from Asian Russia and adjacent territories:
Vespa norwegica var. adulterina du Buysson, 1905, Ann.
Soc. Ent. France 73 (3): 499 (key), 600, 628 - "Europe: many localities...,
Mongolie..., Ile Sakhaline....".
Dolichovespula adulterina montivaga Yamane, 1982, Trans. Shikoku
Ent. Soc. 16: 109 - "Mt. Kariba (1500 m alt.), Hokkaido, Japan".
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