Polistes (Gyrostoma) olivaceus (DeGeer, 1773)

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 : 19

Polistes (Gyrostoma) olivaceus (DeGeer, 1773)

Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Punjab: Rawalpindi : 03.xi.2015, Leg. M. Qasim, ♀; Gilgit-Baltistan: Astore: Doyan , 17.vi.07, Leg. F. Naz, ♀; (Ex. NIM).

Remarks: Kumar (2010) reported this species from Pakistan. Mahmood et al. (2012) reported it from Islamabad; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Naran, Gilgit-Baltistan: Nagar. Recently Siddiqui et al. (2015) recorded it from Islamabad; Punjab: Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal and Jhelum. Shah (2015) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Mansehra, Balakot, Baffa, Oghi, Battagram, Allai, Abbottabad, Ayubia and Havelian.

Distribution: Afghanistan; Cambodia; China; Egypt; Fiji; French Polynesia; India; Indonesia; Iran; Japan; Laos; Madagascar; Malaysia; Marianas; Mauritius (including Chagos Archipelago); Myanmar; Nepal; New Caledonia; Oman; Réunion; Samoa; Seychelles (including Amirantes); Singapore; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Tanzania: Zanzibar; Thailand; Tonga; Vietnam; introduced into Australia: Chile; Easter Is.; Hawaii; New Zealand ( Dover 1929; Das & Gupta 1989; Mahmood et al. 2012).