Polistes (Polistes) dominula (Christ, 1791)

Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Carpenter Muhammad Qasim, James M., Shehzad, Anjum, Zia, Ahmed, Khan, Muhammad Rafique, Mastoi, Muhammad Ishaque, Naz, Falak, Ilyas, Muhammad, Shah, Mazafar & Bhatti, Abdul Rauf, 2017, The vespid fauna of Pakistan, Zootaxa 4362 (1), pp. 1-28 : 18

Polistes (Polistes) dominula (Christ, 1791)

Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Federal Capital area: Islamabad , 16.vi.05, Leg. Asad, 2♀ ; 13.ii.08, Leg. Asad, ♀; Sindh: Nawabshah: Sakrand , 14.iii.07, Leg. A. Zia, ♀ ; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral: Gram chasma, 19.vi.08, Leg. A. Zia, ♀ ; Sukkhur , 20.iii.08, Leg. M. Ishaque, ♀ .

Remarks: Earlier Das & Gupta (1984; 1989) reported this species as P. gallicus from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral; Punjab: Jhelum valley. Later, Dvořák (2007) reported this species from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral: Bamboret valley, Brun; Baluchistan: Hazarqanli= Hazarganji and Ziarat; Gusenleitner (2007) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Jaglot. Mahmood et al. (2012) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Skardu. Faiz et al. (2016) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Gilgit, Ghizer and Hunza-Nagar.

Distribution: Afghanistan; central and southern Europe; China; India; Iran; Israel; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; Northern Africa; Pakistan; Russia; Syria; Tajikistan; Turkey; Turkmenistan intoduced into Argentina; Australia; Canary Islands; Canada; Chile; South Africa and U.S. A ( Das & Gupta 1989; Carpenter 1996; Dvořák 2007; Gusenleitner 2007).