Subgenus Polistella Ashmead
Polistella Ashmead, 1904: 133, genus.
Type species: Polistes manillensis de Saussure, 1853, by original designation. [Misidentification of Protopolybia sedula (de Saussure) = P. exigua (de Saussure) .]
Stenopolistes van der van der Vecht, 1972 [1971]: 101, subgenus of Polistes Latreille.
Type species: Polistes lateritius Smith, 1857, by original designation.
This subgenus is also found in the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions.