Distribution: Western Europe, ?Syria, Georgia (Kobakhidze, 1962), E Kazakhstan, Mongolia, NE China, Korea, Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu. Russia: European part, south to steppe belt, North-West Caucasus, Southern Siberia, Yakutia, east to the Sea of Okhotsk, ?Kamchatka, Amur basin, Primorye, Southern Sakhalin, Southern Kuriles: Iturup, Kunashir (Birula, 1927; Kuwayama, 1967; Tobias, 1978; Kurzenko, 1995; Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.

Localities from collection of SZMN and literature: Russia: Orenburg Province (not shown on map!): Nature Reserve "Buzulukskii Bor" (by courtesy of V.A.Nemkov). Ekaterinburg Province: Ekaterinburg (Birula, 1927); Kurgan Province: "Shukovo" (=Shchuch'e) (Birula, 1927), Prosvet, Utyak (Ketovo district), Ukrainets (Glyadyanskoe district) P. Kamag; Tyumen Province: Tobolsk (Birula, 1927), Tyumen vic.; Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Province: Oktyabr’skoe; Tomsk Province: Ust’-Churul’ka, Chizhapka (Kargasok district), Kolomino (Podgornoe district), Tomsk, Ob'-Enisei Canal (ZIN collection); Novosibirsk Province: Polovinnoe (Krasnoozerskoe district), Kolywansk (=Kolyvan) (Birula, 1927), Boyarka, Pikhtovka and Menzelinskoe Lake (Kolyvan' district), Burmistrovo (Ordynskoe district), Novosibirsk; Altaiskii Krai: Biisk (ZIN collection); Altai Republic: Artybash (Teletskoe Lake); Kemerovo Province: Kuzedeevo (Gornaya Shoriya); Khakas Republic: Birikchul' (ZIN collection); Krasnoyarsk Province: Achinsk and vic., Mana river (ZIN collection), Taseevo (ZIN collection), Kansk District (ZIN collection) Eniseisk (ZIN collection), Verkhneimbatskoe; Evenkia: Baikit (ZIN collection); Tuva: Irbitei (Samagaltai district); Irkutsk Province: Nizhneudinsk (ZIN collection), Irkutsk (Birula, 1927); Buryatia: Chikoi (Kyakhta district); Chita Province: "Tschita" (=Chita), "Nertschinsk" (=Nerchinsk) (Birula, 1927), Nerchinsk (ZIN collection), Nizhnyaya Shakhtoma, Gazimurskii Zavod, a pass in 25 km E from Gazimurskii Zavod, low flow of the Budyumkan River, 10 km S of Uryupino, Nerchinskii Zavod, 65-70 km NE from Nerchinskii Zavod; Aginskii Buryat Autonomous District: Nature Park Alkhanai; Yakutia: "Lena-Tal, zwischen Jakutsk und einer Oertlichkeit, Ytych-Chaja" (=between Yakutsk and Ytyk-Kyuel') (Birula, 1927), river Pilka, Olekminsk (ZIN collection), Yakutsk (ZIN collection), "Verkhoyanskii Trakt" at river Aldan (~120 km E from river Aldan mouth, ZIN collection); Kamchatka: without locality (ZIN collection); Amur Province: Zeya Nature Reserva, 36 km N from Blagoveshchensk, Malaya Sazanka (12 km SSW from Svobodnyi), Svobodnyi, Novospassk, Nature Reserve Khinganskii (Kurzenko, 1992); Jewish Province: between Obluch'e and Khingansk, Birakan (ZIN collection), Bastak Nature Reserve; Khabarovsk Province: "Ajan (Nelkan-Pass)" (a pass on a road from Ayan to Nel'kan) (Birula, 1927), river Ipnityanya between Ayan and Nel'kan (ZIN collection), Ayan (ZIN collection), Arkhangelskoe (Amur river mouth), Tsimmermanovka, Kiselevka, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, river Gorin mouth (ZIN collection), Aga on river Botchi (ZIN collection), Khabarovsk vic., between Vyazemskii and Kotikovo (Khabarovsk Local Museum collection); Primorskii Krai: Troitskoe on Lake Khanka (ZIN collection), 20 km N from Chernyshevka, Chernyshevka (ZIN collection), Tigrovoi (ZIN collection), river Sitsa (now - Tigrovaya) headwater (ZIN collection), Vladivostok (ZIN collection), Gusevskii Mine (7 km NE from Zanadvorovka); Sakhalin: Konuma (Novoaleksandrovsk), 20 km NW from Aniwa, Firsovo, Dolinsk and suburbs, W from Chistovodnoe, Lake Tunaicha in 18 km from Pikhtovyi, river Bakhul in 40 km E from Sokol, Sokol, Voskresenovka on river Tym', 40 km W from Zonal'noe on river Tym', river Naiba in 7 km N from Bykov, Krasnogorsk, Lake Aniwskoe near Krasnogorsk, 5 km N from Tymovskii, Schmidt peninsula in 70 km N from Okha (Kurzenko, 2004), 2-nd Pad', Solov'evka, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; Kunashir (Kuwayama, 1967); Iturup: between Kuibyshevo and Kasatka, between Kuibyshevo and Kuril'sk (Kuwayama, 1967). Kazakhstan: Semipalatinsk Province: Kalguty; Lake Zaisan (ZIN collection). Mongolia: Bulgan aimak: 23 km NNE from Chischig-Öndör (Giordani Soika, 1976). Japan: Hokkaido: Oshima: Kikonai; Ishikari: Sapporo, Jyozankey, Shiraitonotaki, Shikotsuko; Sorachi: Horokanai; Hidaka: Mt. Apoi; Kamikawa: Env. of Furano, Kamuikotan, Otoineppu; Tokachi: Horoka, Ashoro, Nishiashoro, Shimizudani; Kushiro: Akanko; Nemuro: Ochiishi; Honshu: Aomori Pref.: Tsuta, Towada (Ishikawa, 1969).

Taxa described from Asian Russia and adjacent territories:
Dolichovespula media sugare Ishikawa, 1969, Bull. Nat. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 12 (2): 180, figs. 1-3 - "Japan (Honshu) ... Tsuta, Towada, Aomori Pref.".
Dolichovespula borealis Lee, 1986, Sinozool. 10 (4): 195, 196, figs. 1(2), 2(3) - "Hengdaohezi, Heilongjiang province" (not shown).

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