d) Polistes (Polistella) stigma tamulus (Fabricius, 1798)

Vespa tamula Fabricius, 1798: 263 . Type data: Female, UZMC. Type locality: “ In India Orientali ”

Polistes (Polistella) stigma tamula; Das & Gupta, 1984: 414.

Material examined. INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Palampur, 22.x.2017, 1 ♀ & 1 ♂, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Karnataka: Basavenahalli Bengaluru, 27.i.2011, 1 ♀, Coll. LakshmiChikmagalur , 17.ii.2006, 8 ♀, Coll. T. H.M. Shivaprakash; 22.iii.2007, 1 ♀, Coll. Naveen Kumar ; Hebbal Bengaluru, 24.iv.2006, 1 ♀, Coll. Naveen Kumar ; Chikkaballapur, 11.vi.2014, 2 ♀, Coll. S.K. Rajeshwari ; GKVK Bengaluru, 01.iii.2013, 1 ♀ , Coll. Naveenku- mar; Sangam, 18.vii.2018, 9 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; 8.viii.2018, 4 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 6.ix.2018, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Yelahanka Bengaluru, 3.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh ; 10.ix.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Veternary College Bengaluru, 17.vi.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Deepshalini. Maharashtra: Chaskaman Dam Pune, 25.xi.2016, 4 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar ; Agriculture College Pune, 19.ii.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Ga- was. Tamil Nadu: Virudhunagar, 12.ii.2015, 1 ♀, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Uttarakhand: Bhimtal, 12.xi.2016, 1 ♂, Coll. Ankita Gupta.

Distribution. India: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Vietnam. (Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter 1996, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gupta 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al. 2010, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, 2014b & 2015, Sheikh et al. 2017, Nguyen et al. 2017, Rafi et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017, Gawas et al. 2019, Girish Kumar et al. 2019b).