Distribution: Scandinavia, NE Kazakhstan (Altai Mts.), NE Korea, Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku. Russia: Ural, Siberia, Primorskii Krai, Sakhalin, Kuriles (Kurzenko, 1995; Pekkarinen, 1995; Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima. In Sakhalin, Southern Kuriles and Japan - Dolichovespula pacifica pacifica (Birula, 1930), on the continent - D. p. loekenae Eck, 1980.

Localities from collection of SZMN and literature: Russia: Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Province: the Polar Urals: 156 km from the Chum railway station; Omsk Province: Omsk; Novosibirsk Province: Novosibirsk; Altai Republic: Lake Teletskoe western coast (ZIN collection); Krasnoyarsk Province: Krasnoyarsk (ZIN collection), river Mana (ZIN collection), Taseevo (ZIN collection), Verkhneimbatskoe, Podkamennaya Tunguska; Tuva: Khundurgun Pass (Tannu-Ola Mts., Kahdagaity district); Irkutsk Province: 23 km S from Slyudyanka; Chita Province: river Gazimur in 10 km NE from Kungara; Yakutia: river Pilka, river Ergedzhei (river Dzherba tributary); Khabarovsk Province: river Botchi (ZIN collection), river Bureya headwater; Sakhalin: Nikol'skoe (Birula, 1930), Keton (Smirnykh), Kurashi (Novosibirskoe), Noda (Chekhov), Maoka (Kholmsk), Tarantomari, Toyohara (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Otomari (Korsakov), Ichinosawa (1st Pad') Furumaki (Novaya) (Yamane, 1975), Horo, Konuma (Novoaleksandrovsk), Mioka (Kholmsk), river Poronai, Khoe, Mt. Naihoro-Tandzan, river Anna mouth aat Susunaiskii, Dolinsk and suburbs, Kostromskoe, Ozerskii, Novikovo, 20 km NW from Aniwa, Shebunino, river Vintis at Kuznetsov cape, Utesnoe in the Korsakov District, Levenorn cape in Tonino-Aniwskii Peninsula, river Bakhul in 40 km E from Sokol, Poronaisk, 7 km N from Bykov, Krasnogorsk, 10 km E from Boshnyakovo (Kurzenko, 2004), 12 km NW from Aniwa; Kamchatka: Apacha; N Kuriles: Paramushir: Severo-Kuril'sk; Southern Kuriles: Shikotan (Kuwayama, 1967); Kunashir: Bontomari (Cape Rogacheva), Seto (Goryachii Plyazh) (Kuwayama, 1967); Iturup: between Kuibyshevo and Kasatka, Kasatka, between Kuril'sk and Reidovo, Slavnoe (Kuwayama, 1967). Kazakhstan: near Belukha Mt. (Katunskii Range); not shown: Zaisan Hollow: Saikan Mts. All other localities were taken from Pekkarinen, 1995. Japan: Hokkaido: Soya district: Rebun Is.; Kamikawa district: Otoineppu, Mt. Daisetsu; Tokachi district: Kamisatsunai; Shiretoko Peninsula; Kushiro district: Lake Kussharo; Hidaka district: Mt. Poroshiri; Sorachi district: Mt. Yûbari; Ishikari district: Sapporo and vic.; a border between Shiribeshi and Hiyama districts: Mt. Kariba; etc. Honshu: Aomori district: Mt.Hakkôda; Akita district: Goshogake Spa (Yamane, 1975).

Note: A.Pekkarinen (1995) consider Dolichovespula pacifica (Birula, 1930) to be conspecific with North American D. norvegicoides (Sladen, 1918).

Taxa described from Asian Russia: Vespula norvegica pacifica Birula, 1930, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. U.R.S.S. 31 (2): 295, 317 – "Im Küstengebiete des Pazifischen Ozeans und auf den naheliegeneden Inseln" (lectotype from "Insel Sachalin"). – Eck, 1984, Ent. Abh. Staat. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 47 (11): 195 (designation of lectotype).

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