''Vespula arisana'', also known as the Taiwan yellowjacket, and Taiwan hornet, is a species of

wasp A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder ...

in the family

Vespidae The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as '' Polistes fuscatus'', '' Vespa orientalis'', and ''Vespula germanica'') and many solitary wasps. Eac ...

. It was described by

Jinhaku Sonan was a Japanese entomologist. In 1908, at the age of 16, Jinhaku Sonan arrived in Taiwan where he completed his education in Creek Middle Schools evening division 1909 where he later taught. In order to showcase zoological and insect specimens, t ...

in 1929. The species is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the island of Taiwan, where its range covers the entire island. Not much is known about the species, because of its exclusivity and endemicity.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q14424040 Vespidae