195) Polistes (Gyrostoma) gigas Kirby, 1826

Cyclostoma gigas Kirby, 1826: 36 . Type data: Male,?OUM. Type locality: China. Polistes orientalis Lepeletier, 1836: 519 . Type locality : China. Polistes gyrostoma de Saussure, 1854: 104 . Type locality : India, China. Polistes confusus Smith, 1857: 102 . Distribution . India: Sikkim. Elsewhere: China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan); Vietnam. (Das & Gupta 1989,

Carpenter 1996, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Tan et al. 2014 b, Pham & Li 2015, Nguyen

& Carpenter 2019).