32) Phimenes flavopictus (Blanchard, 1845) Eumenes flavopictus Blanchard, 1840: pl. 2, fig. 21. Type data: MNHN. Eumemes arcuata continentalis Zimmermann, 1931: 205, 224, 226. Type data: Holotype female, ZMB. Type local- ity: Sikkim, India. Eumenes flavopictus flavopictus; van der Vecht, 1959b: 32. Eumenes flavopictus continentalis; van der Vecht, 1959b:15. Phi flavopictum continentale; Gusenleitner, 1987: 269. Phimenes flavopictum continentale; Madl, 1995: 398. Phimenes flavopictum flavopictum; Girish Kumar, 2013: 119. Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Malayamartha Chikamaglur, 22.iii.2007, 1 ♀, Coll. Shivaprakash; Sirsi, 8.i.2008, 1 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar; Hebbal Bengaluru, 24.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Mallesh; viii.2018, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Kerala: Ernakulam, 4 m, 9°59’ N 76°17’ E, 14.viii.2011, 1♀, coll. T. V. Aswathy. Trivandrum, 1.vi.2014, 1♀, coll. Anjali. Maharashtra: Bhimashankar, 27.xi.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Paresh Churi; 22.ii.2017, 1 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China (including Hong Kong); Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. (Gusenleitner 2006 & 2011, Girish Kumar 2013b, Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2013, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b, Nguyen et al. 2016, Pham & Li 2015, Pannure et al. 2016, Sheikh et al. 2017, Selis 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 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3862319