214) Polistes (Polistella) sagittarius de Saussure, 1854

Polistes sagittarius Saussure, 1853: 56 . Type data: Female, MHNG. Type locality: “ Indes Orientales, la Chine ”.

Polistes sagittarius var (or subsp.) indonesicus Bequaert, 1940: 267. Type data: Female, male, MCZ. Type locality: Bandjar, Java, Indonesia .

Polistes strigosus baliensis Gusenleitner, 2000: 939 . Type data: Female, male, OLM. Type locality: Bali, Indonesia.

Material examined. INDIA: Nagaland: Malbong, iii.2015, 1♀, Coll. Ankita Gupta.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh; China (including Hong Kong); Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam. (Carpenter 1996, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gupta 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan et al. 2000b, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al. 2010, Nugroho et al. 2012, Mahmood et al. 2012, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Pham & Li 2015, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b, Nguyen & Carpenter 2019).