Vespa dybowskii André Figs. 11b, 11d, and 29 Vespa dybowskii ‘Rad. in litt’. André, 1884: 582. Holotype female; Russia: ‘ Sibérie’ (PARIS?). Vespa dubowskii; Dalla Torre, 1904: 65. Misspelling of Vespa dybowskii André. Vespa walkeri du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 539. Syntype female, male; China: ‘ Haï-ning’ (LONDON-NHM). Vespa dybowskii mutata Ma, 1937: 30. Holotype male; China: ‘ Hangchow’ (HANGZHOU, destroyed?). Distribution. Myanmar, China (Tibet, Zhejiang), Russia (Siberia, Primorsky), Korea, Japan. Discussion. This species is relatively rare in collections. It is a nest parasite of Vespa crabro and V. simillima. Vespa dybowskii queens take over the nests of these species and use the host workers to raise their own brood (Martin et al. 2008)

Published as part of Smith-Pardo, Allan H., Carpenter, James M. & Kimsey, Lynn, 2020, The Diversity of Hornets in the Genus Vespa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae), Their Importance and Interceptions in the United States, pp. 1-27 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 4 (3) on page 14, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaa006, http://zenodo.org/record/3826921