Distribution: SE part of Asian Russia, Korea, China, Indochina, NE India (Kurzenko, 1995). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.

Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN, and literature: Russia: Amur Province: Blagoveshchensk, Kundur (Khabarovsk Local Museum); Jewish Province: Bastak Nature Reserve; Khabarovsk Province: Khabarovsk vic. (see also: Gussakovskii, 1932), Amban' on the river Khor (ZIN collection), Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Kiselevka; Primorskii Krai: Chernigovka (ZIN collection); 20 km N from Chernyshevka; Yakovlevka (ZIN collection); 25 km NNE from Mnogoudobnoe, Tigrovoi, Gusevskii Mine (7 km NE from Zanadvorovka); Tigrovoi (ZIN collection), Partizansk, Vladivistok (ZIN collection; Gussakovskii, 1932), incl. Okeanskaya (ZIN collection; Sk.Yamane, Wagner, S.Yamane, 1980).

Taxa described from Asian Russia and adjacent territories:
Vespa koreensis Radoszkowski, 1887, Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 21: 432 - "Korée".
Pseudovespa birulai Gussakovskii, 1932, Ark. Zool. 24A (10): 52 "Ussuri-Geb.: Tigrovaja..., Sutshan..., Sedanka..., Kreis Chabarowsk..., Wladiwostok".

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.
Gussakovskii V. Verzeichnis der von Herrn Dr. R. Malaise im Ussuri und Kamtschatka gesammelten aculeaten Hymenopteren. - Arkiv f. Zool. 24A: 1-66.
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).
Radoszkowski, O. 1887. Hyménoptères de Korée. - Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 21: 428-436.
Yamane, Sk., Wagner, R.E., Yamane, S. 1980. A tentative revision of the subgenus Paravespula of Eastern Asia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). - Insecta Matsumurana 19: 1-46.