b) Polistes (Polistella) strigosus strigosus Bequaert, 1940

Polistes strigosus Bequaert, 1940: 269–272 . Type data: Holotype female, MCZ. Type locality: Wong-Sa-Shui, China.

Polistes (Polistella) strigosus strigosus; Das & Gupta, 1989: 81.

Distribution. India: Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan); Laos; Vietnam. (Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter 1996, Gusenleitner 2011, Lambert et al. 2012, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b, Nguyen 2016, Sheikh et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017).