a) Katamenes tauricus tauricus (de Saussure, 1855)

Vespa sesquicincta Lichtenstein, 1796: 202, no. 163, 168. Type data: sex not stated (male, MNB). Type locality: “in India orientali”.

Eumenes tauricus de Saussure, 1855: 137.

Eumenes latipes Sickmann, 1894: 228.

Eumenes arbustorum var. baicalensis Kokujev, 1927: 72.

Eumenes latipes var. baicalensis; Giordani Soika, 1949: 43, 47.

Eumenes sesquicinctus; Giordani Soika, 1949: 43, 47.

Katamenes sesquicinctus sesquicinctus; Giordani Soika, 1966: 92.

Katamenes sesquicinctus baicalensis; Giordani Soika, 1966: 93.

Eumenesses quicinctus var. tauricus; Blüthgen, 1951b: 177.

Katamenes tauricus tauricus; Dvořák and Castro, 2007: 232, fig. 3.

Katamenes tauricus; Fateryga et al., 2017: 34.

Distribution. India: “ India orientali” (doubtful). Elsewhere: Iran; central Siberia; Afghanistan; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; north-eastern China;?Crimea; south-eastern European Russia. ( Lichtenstein 1796, Kurzenko 1977, Fateryga 2017 & 2018, Antropov & Fateryga 2017).