Distribution: Western Europe, Asia Minor, Caucasus: Georgia (Kobakhidze, 1962), E Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, north from Fukushima Pref. Russia: European part, Siberia, east to Upper Kolyma and Kamchatka, Komandorskie Is., Sakhalin, Kuriles (Yamane, 1975; Tobias, 1978; Eck, 1983; Kurzenko, 1995; Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima. Dolichovespula saxonica nigrescens Eck, 1983 occur in continental part of Asian Russia, excluding Kamchatka; D. s. kamtschatkensis Eck, 1983 - in Kamchatka and Paramushir; D. s. nipponica Sk.Yamane, 1975 - Kunashir and Japan.

Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN, and literature: Russia: Orenburg Province (not shown on map!): Shaitantau Mts. (Kuvandyk District; by courtesy of V.A.Nemkov); Ekaterinburg Province: Sazhina village (Achit District in the European part); Chelyabinsk Province: Miass, Chelyabinsk; Kurgan Province: Kurgan, Chumlyak (Shchuch'e district), Uval (Glyadyanskoe district); Tyumen Province: Tyumen vic.; Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District: Obdorsk (now - Labytnangi, ZIN collection); Tomsk Province: Yagyl'yakh river (Krapivenskoe field), Ust'-Churul'ka; Chizhapka (Kragasok district), Tomsk (Eck, 1983), Ob'-Enisei Canal (ZIN collection); Novosibirsk Province: Polovinnoe (Krasnoozerskoe district), Pikhtovka and Boyarka (Kolyvan' district), Novosibirsk; Altaiskii Krai: Zarinsk; Altai Republic: Saragol, Khabarovka, Lake Teletskoe: Artybash, Chiri, Bele (ZIN collection), Chelyush river, Kolyushtu Mt. (Nature Reserve Altaiskii); Kemerovo Province: Malyi Antibes (Mariinsk district), Tyazhin, Kuzedeevo (Gornaya Shoriya); Khakasia: Shira, 15-25 km NNE from Balyksu, Birikchul', Abaza; Taimyr: between Noril'sk and Snezhnogorsk; Evenkia: Baikit (ZIN collection); Krasnoyarsk Province: Podkamennaya Tunguska (ZIN collection), Eniseisk (ZIN collection), [Krasnoyarsk vic.] (Eck, 1983), Lake Manskoe (ZIN collection), Minusinsk (ZIN collection), Shivilig (Kurtushibinskii Range); Tuva: Irbitei (Samagaltai district); Irkutsk Province: Yurty (ZIN collection), Bunbuiskoe (ZIN collection), Nizhneudinsk (ZIN collection), Usol'e (ZIN collection), Irkutsk, former "Sibiryakov's factory" on Lake Baikal western coast (ZIN collection), Ust'-Kut, Chuya in 25 km upp from the river Vitim mouth (ZIN collection); Buryatia: Nature Reserve Baikal'skii, Lake Shchuch'e (Gusinoozersk district), Kokorino (Ulan-Ude district), Chikoi (Kyakhta district), [Nature Reserve "Barguzinskii"] (Eck, 1983), Dogarskaya Hollow (not shown, N Baikal), Baisa (Witim table land); Chita Province: Chita, Nature Park Alkhanai, Nature Reserve Sokhondinskii, Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Nerchinsk (ZIN collection), Ksenievskaya (ZIN collection), Uryupino and vic., Budyumkan village, Nerchinskii Zavod; Yakutia: Yakutsk (Eck, 1983, ZIN collection), etc. (Eck, 1983), Bestyakh in 105 verst SW from Yakutsk (ZIN collection), river Aldan at river Timpton (ZIN collection); Magadan Province: near Aborigen Mt. (Upper Kolyma)¹⁾; Kamchatka: "Draschka" (correctly - Dranka) (Eck, 1983), "Kmotschewsk" (correctly - Klyuchi) (Eck, 1983), Petropawlowsk, M.Awatschinsk, Kmotschevsk, Kommandeur-Insel (Eck, 1983), Dal'nii; Amur Province: Zeya Nature Reserve, Tolbuzino on river Amur (ZIN collection), Blagoveshchensk, Malaya Sazanka (12 km SSW from Svobodnyi), Svobodnyi, Novospassk and Nature Reserve Khinganskii (Kurzenko, 1992); Jewish Province: Obluch'e, Bastak Nature Reserve; Khabarovsk Province: river Aldoma and Molkuch between Ayan and Nel'kan (ZIN collection), Nikolaevsk-na-Amure (Eck, 1983, ZIN collection), Kiselevka, Khabarovsk (Eck, 1983, ZIN collection), etc.; river Botchi (ZIN collection), Upper Bureya District: Shakhtinskii (Khabarovsk Local Museum); Primorskii Krai: Pogranichnyi (ZIN collection), Chernigovka (ZIN collection), Kalinovka (Spassk vic.), 20 km N from Chernyshevka, Anisimovka (Eck, 1983), Tigrovoi (ZIN collection), Malaya Elduga river, Gusevskii Mine (7 km NE from Zanadvorovka); Sakhalin: Keton (Smirnykh), Hoye, Tomarikishi (Vakhrushev), Noda (Chekhov), Tarantomari, Toyohara (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Ichinosawa (1-st Pad' near Korsakov), Kitafunakoshi, Ohtani (Sokol) (Yamane, 1975), Konuma (Novoaleksandrovsk), Khoe, river Poronai, Novikovo, 20 km NW from Aniwa, Dolinsk, river Tum' in Okha District, 60 km N from Okha, Tymovsk, Lake Tunaicha in 18 km from Pikhtovyi, river Tum' in Bay Nadezhda, Lake Bolshoe Vavaiskoe, Lake Rybach'e at Val, river Tym' in 20 km SW from Nogliki, 40 km E from Zonal'noe, Poronaisk, Sovetskoe, river Naiba in 7 km from Bykov, 10 km E from Boshnyakovo, Schmidt Peninsula in 70 km N from Okha (Kurzenko, 2004), 12 km NW from Aniva, Solov'yovka; Kunashir: Ivanovskii Cape. Kazakhstan: Ural'sk Province: Yanvartsevo on river Ural (ZIN collection); [Semipalatinsk] (Eck, 1983), 20 km SE from Nikitinka. Mongolia: Uvs aimak: Charchira (Eck, 1983); Chövsgöl aimak: 60 km WNW from Mörön; Bulgan aimak: 7 km NW from Chanþargalant; Central aimak: 5-10 km N from Ulan-Baator, 11 km ESE from Bajancogt (Giordani Soika, 1976), Sutszukte near Mt. Noen-Ula (ZIN collection). Japan: Hokkaido: Kamikawa district: Otoineppu, Horokanai; Tokachi district: Tomuraushi; Kushiro district: Kushiro; Sorachi district: Mt. Yubari; Ishikari district: Sapporo and vic. (Yamane, 1975). Other records were taken from R.Eck (1983).

Note: ¹⁾a specimen from the Aborigen Mt. vicinity has much shorter distance between hind ocelli than in D. norwegica specimens from the same locality.

Taxa described from Asian Russia and adjacent territories:
Dolichovespula saxonica nipponica Yamane, 1975, Kontu 43 (3): 349 "Hokkaido. Otoineppu".
Dolichovespula saxonica kamtschatkensis Eck, 1983, Ent. Abhand. Staat. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 46 (8): 171 - "Petropawlowsk, Flußtal Poganka, Kamtschatka".
Dolichovespula saxonica nigrescens Eck, 1983, Ent. Abhand. Staat. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 46 (8): 172 - "Primorje, Umgeb. Anisimowka".

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