Distribution: SE part of Asian Russia: Khabarovsk vic. (Dubatolov, Novomodnyi, [2006]), southern regions of Primorskii Krai, Korea, China, Japan, Indochina, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka (Kurzenko, 1995; Carpenter, Kojima, 1997). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.

Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN and material determined by V.V.Dubatolov: Russia: Amur Province: Nature Reserve Khinganskii (Dubatolov, 2011); Jewish Province: Bastak Nature Reserve; Khabarovskii Krai: Khabarovsk vic., Mukhen, Anyui National Park (Bikhan); Primorskii Krai: Iman (now - Dal'nerechensk, ZIN collection), Odarka river (8 km NE from Spassk, ZIN collection), 20 km N from Chernyshevka, 20 verst E from Spassk (ZIN collection), Yakovlevka (ZIN collection), Nature Reserve Ussuriiskii, river Suputinka (now - Komarovka, ZIN collection), Gusevskii Mine (7 km NE from Zanadvorovka).

References
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. 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.
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).