c) Polistes (Gyrostoma) rothneyi rothneyi Cameron, 1900

Polistes rothneyi Cameron, 1900: 410 . Type data: Male, OUM. Type locality: Barrackpore, West Bengal, India. Polistes rufolineatus Cameron, 1900: 411 . Type data: Female, male, OUM. Type locality: India. Polistes yayeyamae Matsumura, 1911: 106 . Type data: Female, male, UMHU. Type locality: Okinawa. Polistes rothneyi sikkimensis van der Vecht, 1968: 102 . Polistes rothneyi tibetanus van der Vecht, 1968: 102 . Polistes rothneyi koreanus van der Vecht, 1968: 104 . Polistes rothneyi grahami van der Vecht, 1968: 104 . Polistes rothneyi iwatai van der Vecht, 1968: 104 . Polistes rothneyi hainanensis van der Vecht, 1968: 106 . Polistes rothneyi gressitti van der Vecht, 1968: 106 . Distribution. India: Delhi, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Nepal. (Das & Gupta 1989,

Carpenter 1996, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gupta 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al.

2010).