The vespid fauna of Pakistan 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 Zootaxa 2017 2017-12-04 4362 1 1 28 (Linnaeus, 1767) Linnaeus 1767 [151,681,1549,1575] Insecta Vespidae Polistes GBIF Animalia Hymenoptera 17 18 Arthropoda species gallicus Polistes   Remarks: Dvořák, (2007)reported this species from 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; Armenia;  Azerbaijan; China; Iran; Israel; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; NorthernAfrica; Pakistan; Russia; southern Europe; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine( Carpenter 1996; Dvořák 2007; Gusenleitner 2007).