Russia, Khabarovsk suburbs, Bychikha, Great Khekhtsyr Nature Reserve, 4.09.2008, V.V.Dubatolov.
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Russia, Chita Province, Argun river,
10 km S from Uryupino, 12.VIII 1996 (Dubatolov leg.), in SZMN collection.
1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view.
Russia, Khabarovsk suburbs, Bychikha, Great Khekhtsyr Nature Reserve, 4.09.2008, V.V.Dubatolov.
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Russia, Chita Province, Argun river,
10 km S from Uryupino, 12.VIII 1996 (Dubatolov leg.), in SZMN collection.
1. dorsal view, 2. lateral view.
Distribution: Russia: Eastern Transbaikalia, Middle Amur, Primorye. Korea, China, Burma, Thailand, Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu (Kurzenko, 1995; Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.
Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN, and literature: Russia: Chita Province: 10 km S from Uryupino (Dubatolov, 1998); Amur Province: Zeya Nature Reserve, Novospassk (Kurzenko, 1992), Kundur (Khabarovsk Local Museum), Talakan; Jewish Province: Bastak Nature Reserve; Khabarovsk Province: Khabarovsk vic., Kiselevka, Arkhangelskoe (Amur river mouth); Primorskii Krai: Odarka river (8 km NE from Spassk, ZIN collection), 20 verst E from Spassk (ZIN collection), 20 km N from Chernyshevka, Yakovlevka (ZIN collection), Gornotaezhnoe (20 km SE from Ussuriisk, ZIN collection), river Suputinka (now - Komarovka, ZIN collection), Tigrovoi (ZIN collection), Vladivostok: Okeanskaya (ZIN collection), Is. Askold (ZIN collection).
Note: the species was recorded also from south part of the Khabarovsk Province (Kurzenko, 1995).
Taxa described from Asian Russia: Vespa dybowskii "Rad. in litt." André, 1884, Spec. Hym. Europe Algér. 2: 582 - "Sibérie".
References
André, E. 1884. Les Guêpes. In: André, E. (Ed.),
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Dubatolov, V.V. 1998. Social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Polistinae,
Vespinae) of Siberia in the collection of Siberian Zoological Museum. -
Far Eastern Entomologist 57: 1-11.
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.
Kurzenko, N.V. 1992. [Fam. Vespidae]. In: [Insects of the Nature
Reserve Khinnganskii]. Part 2. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok: 251-254. (In Russian).
Kurzenko, N.V. 1995. [Fam. Vespidae]. In: [A key to insects
from the Far East of Russia]. Vol. 4. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera.
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