41) Allorhynchium argentatum (Fabricius, 1804) Vespa argentata Fabricius, 1804: 260. Type data: Male, UZMC. Type locality: Sumatra, Indonesia. Rhynchium argentatum; de Saussure, 1852: 115. Rhynchium clypeatum Cameron, 1900: 531. Odynerus argentatus; Dover, 1925: 297. Allorhynchium argentatum; van der Vecht, 1963: 60 (list), fig. 5a. Allorhynchium clypeatum; van der Vecht, 1963: 60 (list). Allorhynchium metallicum; Gusenleitner, 1988b: 182. Allorhynchium argentatum argentatum; Gusenleitner, 2006: 693. Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Sangam, 08.viii.2018, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Kerala: Ernakulam (Perumbavoor), 33 m, 25.x.2011, 1♀ & 1♂, coll. T. V. Aswathy. Idukki, 1200 m, 10.xi.2011, 1♂, coll. T. V. Aswathy. Distribution. India:Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Bhutan; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand. (Gusenleitner 2006 & 2011, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014b, 2015a & 2015b, Girish Kumar et al. 2016 a, Pannure et al. 2016, Rafi et al. 2017, Nidup et al. 2018, Gawas et al. 2019).

Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 4784 (1) on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3862319