Vespula vulgaris

Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) Literature records Khalaf (1961); Derwesh (1965). Remarks Augul (2017) reports further findings of this species from Solaf [Sulev], but these records belong in fact to Vespula germanica, as visible from the pictures provided. Distribution United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France (including Corsica), Spain (including Balearic Islands), Portugal, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Buthan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan; introduced into Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, French Polynesia, Chile, Argentina (Rahmani et al. 2020).