Distribution: Russia: Transbaikalia, Middle Amur, Primorye (Kurzenko, 1995, Dubatolov, 1998); China, Japan: Honshu, Kyushu, Tsushima (Kojima, Hagiwara, 1998).
Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN, and literature: Russia: Buryatia: "Ust'-Kirén, unweit Kjachta" (Morawitz, 1892); Chita Province: Ust'-Urluk on river Chikoi (ZIN collection), Chita, Nerchinskii Zavod, Argunsk, Zakamennaya near Batakan on river Gazimur, Uryupino; Amur Province: Blagoveshchensk, 6-10 km N from Belogor'e, Malaya Sazanka (15 km SSW fom Svobodnyi), Zeya; Jewish Province: between Obluch'e and Khingansk; Nature Reserve "Bastak"; Khabarovsk Province: Khabarovsk vic., Bikin (ZIN collection), Komsomolsk-na-Amure; Kiselevka; Primorskii Krai: Novokachalinsk, Spassk (ZIN collection), Yakovlevka (ZIN collection), 20 km N from Chernyshevka, Tigrovoi (ZIN collection), Suchan and Suchanskii Rudnik (now - Partizansk, ZIN collection), Vladivostok, incl. Okeanskaya (ZIN collection), Gusevskii Mine (7 km NE from Zanadvorovka). Japan: Hokkaido: Jôzankei near Sapporo, Sapporo, Mt. Daisetsu, Maruyama (Kojima, Hagiwara, 1998).
Taxa described from Asian Russia and adjacent territories:
Polistes snelleni de Saussure, 1862, Stett. Ent. Ztg. 23:
140 - "Japan".
Polistes puncticollis Morawitz, 1892, Horae Soc. Ent. Ross.
26: 150 - "Ust'-Kirén, unweit Kjachta".
Polistes snelleni f. nigrihumerus Uhida, 1936, Biogeographica
1: 69 - "Hokkaido" [lectotype - Jôzankei (Kojima, Hagiwara, 1998)].
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