Polistes mandarinus

Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, Zootaxa 2920, pp. 42-64 : 49

Polistes mandarinus de Saussure 1853 [probably Polistes (Polistella) eboshinus Sonan 1943 ]

Sonan (1938: 69) listed 1 Ƥ with the collection data “Taihorin, vi.1911 (H. Sautter)” and deposited in the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut. He mentioned “this species is common in Formosa.” This statement was probabaly based on the type series of Polistes mandarinus var. eboshinus Sonan, 1943 ; all type specimens we located in TARI had been collected before the year 1938.