Social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) of Siberia in the Collection of Siberian Zoological Museum

an online review reproduced from Far Eastern Entomologist 57, 1998 (with some additions and corrections). Based on the collections of the Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia) the ranges of 18 species of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae, Vespinae) in Siberia are outlined