Distribution: Southern Scandinavia, Central Europe, Turkey, Caucasus: Georgia (Kobakhidze, 1962, as Vespula (Dolichovespula) ingrica Bir.), SW Iran (Pekkarinen, Huldén, 1995). Russia: European part (Tobias, 1978) (including St.-Petersburg vic.), SW Siberia (Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.

Localities from collection of SZMN:Kazakhstan/Russia : 1 female, the Altai Mts., the Listvyaga Range, near the Tesninskii Belok Mt., 2200 m, 27 VII 1997 (R. Dudko & Zintshenko). Russia: 1 female, Shira District, Malaya Syya, 16.07.1998 (Zintshenko leg.).

References
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.
Kobakhidze, D. 1962. Contributions to a faunistic survey of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Georgian SSR. - Fragmenta faunistica 9 (27): 439-446. (In Russian with English summary).
Pekkarinen, A., Huldén, L. 1995. Distribution and phenology of the Vespinae and Polistinae species ineastern Fennoscandia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). - Sahlbergia 2: 99-111.
Tobias, V.I. 1978. [Superfamily Vespoidea - hornets.1. Family Vespidae]. In: [A key to insects from the European part of the USSR]. T. III. [Hymenoptera]. P. 1. Nauka, Leningrad: 147-152. (In Russian).