Distribution: Russia: Khabarovsk vic. (Dubatolov, Novomodnyi, [2006]), Southern Primorye, Sakhalin. Korea, China, Indochina, E India, Bhutan (Kurzenko, 1995; Carpenter, Kojima, 1997). Khabarovsk vicinity (!).  Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.

Localities from collection of SZMN: Russia: Khabarovsk Province: Kazakevichevo, Bychikha (Khabarovsk vic.), Korfovskii (Khabarovsk Local Museum), Anyui National Park (Kon); Primorskii Krai: 20 verst E from Spassk (ZIN collection), Yakovlevka (ZIN collection), Nature Reserve Ussuriiskii. Sakhalin: without locality (Suprunenko, ZIN collection).

Remarks: the species is active during a night time: it was observed on a bite trap after 22 P.M., 3.09.2010 in Bychikha (V.V.Dubatolov).

Taxa described from Asian Russia: Vespa suprunenkoi Birula, 1925, Arch. Naturgesch. (Abt. A) 90 (12): 89 (key), 92 - "Insel Sachalin".

References
Birula, A. 1925. Ueber die russischen Wespen und ihre geographische Verbreitung. I. - Arch. Naturgesch. 90 A (12): 88-102.
Carpenter, J.M. & Kojima, J. 1997. Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). - Nat. Hist. Bull. Ibaraki Univ. 1: 51-92.
Dubatolov, V.V. & Dolgikh, A.M. 2009. Social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) of the Bolshekhekhtsyrskii nature reserve (the Khabarovsk suburbs), with notes on their distribution in the Lower Amur. - Amurian zoological journal 1 (1): 76-82.
Dubatolov, V.V. & Novomodnyi, E.V. 2005 [2006]. New data on distribution of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Vespinae) in the Russian Far East. In: [Animal world of the Far East]. No. 5. - Blagoveshchensk: 157-160. (In English).
Kurzenko, N.V. 1995. [Fam. Vespidae]. In: [A key to insects from the Far East of Russia]. Vol. 4. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Part 1. - St-Petersburg: 264-324. (In Russian).