Also Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan,Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates.
Biology
Social, constructing communal paper nests
comprising a single horizontally orientated comb with downward pointing
cells. Larvae are fed on chewed-up, soft-bodied insects such as
caterpillars.
Reference
Bequaert, J.C. 1918.
A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the
American Museum Congo Expedition: with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps.
Bulletin of the AMNH 39: 1-384.
