Distribution: SE part of Asian Russia (Kurzenko, 1995), South Kamchatka (vagrant?), Korea, China (Kurzenko, 1995), Japan: Hokkaido: Okushiri Is. and Oshima Peninsula (Matsuura, 1995), Honshu, Tsushima, Shikoku, Kyushu (ssp. antennalis Perez), Ryu-Kyu Is. (ssp. chinensis F.) (Kojima, Hagiwara, 1998).

Localities from collection of SZMN and literature: Russia: Kamchatka: coast within Petropavlovsk (vagrant?); Amur Province: Blagoveshchensk, Malaya Sazanka (17 km SSW from Svobodnyi), Korfovo (Tambovka ditrict), Nature Reserve Khinganskii (Kurzenko, 1992); Jewish Province: Nature Reserve Bastak; Khabarovsk Province: Khabarovsk vic., Komsomolsk-na-Amure; Primorskii Krai: Yakovlevka (ZIN collection), 20 km N from Chernyshevka. Japan: Hokkaido: Okushiri Is., Oshima Peninsula (Matsuura, 1995); Honshu: Aomori Pref.: San'nohe (Kojima, Hagiwara, 1998).

Note:  The species is known also from southern regions of the Khabarovsk Province (Kurzenko, 1995).

Taxa described from Asian Russia and adjacent territories:
Polistes biglumis var. antennalis Pérez, 1905, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris: 24, 81 - "Japan ... [China:] Kouey-Tchéou" (lectotype from Japan by Kojima, 1997).

References
Dubatolov, V.V. 2011. Social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) of the Bastak Nature Reserve (Jewish Autonomous Province, Amur basin). - Amurian Zoological Journal 3(1).
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.
Kojima, J. 1997. Taxonomic notes on the social wasps in the Kanto Plain, central Japan (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). - Nat. Hist. Bull. Ibaraki Univ. 1: 17-44.
Kojima, J., Hagiwara, Y. 1998. Lectotype designation of four species and one form of the paper wasp genus Polistes Latreille, 1802, described from Japan, with notes on the scientific names of Japanese Polistes (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae). - Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 247-262.
Kurzenko, N.V. 1992. [Fam. Vespidae]. In: [Insects of the Nature Reserve Khinganskii]. Part 2. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok: 251-254. (In Russian).
Kurzenko, N.V. 1995. Vespidae. In: [A key to insects from the Far East of Russia]. Vol. 4. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Part 1. - Nauka, St-Petersburg: 264-324. (In Russian).
Malikova, E.I., Kirillova, K., Streltzov, A.N. 2006. [Data on social wasps (Vespidae) and bees (Apidae) from Bastak Nature Reserve]. - Priroda zapovednika “Bastak” [Nature of Bastak Nature Reserve]. Blagoveshchensk 3: 118-120. (In Russian).
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Pérez, J. 1905. Hyménoptères recueillis dans le Japon central par M.Harmand, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de France à Tokio. - Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris: 23-41, 79-87, 148-158.