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.