b) Polistes (Gyrostoma) rothneyi krombeini van der Vecht, 1968
Polistes (Megapolistes) rothneyi krombeini van der Vecht, 1968: 100 . Type data: Female, MCZ. Type locality: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Distribution. India: Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand. (Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter 1996, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al. 2010, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b).