Genus Polistes Latreille

Polistes Latreille, 1802: 363, genus (6 species).

Type species: “ Polistes gallica, Fab. ” [= Vespa gallica Linnaeus, 1767], by subsequent designation of Latreille, 1810: 438.

Polystes [!]; Palisot de Beauvois, 1818: pl. 8. - du Buysson & Marshall, 1892: 59. - H. von Ihering, 1896, 19: 452.

Eupolistes Dalla Torre, 1904: 68, name for “Premiere division” of Polistes Latreille in de Saussure, 1853: 45 (61 species).

Type species: Vespa gallica Linnaeus, 1767, by subsequent designation of Richards, 1973: 86.

Pseudopolistes Weyrauch, 1937: 266, 274, genus (3 species). Unavailable; no type species designated.

Sulcopolistes Blüthgen, 1938 [1937]: 273, subgenus of Polistes Latreille.

Type species: Polistes semenowi Morawitz, 1889, by original designation.

Polistula Weyrauch, 1938: 273, genus (5 species). Unavailable; no type species designated.

Polistula Weyrauch, 1939: 148, genus.

Type species: Polistes kohli Dalla Torre, 1904 [= Polistes biglumis Linnaeus, 1758], by original designation. Validation by type selection of Polistula Weyrauch, 1938 .

Pseudopolistes Weyrauch, 1939: 195 . Validation by type selection of Pseudopolistes Weyrauch, 1937 .

Type species: Polistes sulcifer Zimmermann, 1930, by original designation.

Leptopolistes Blüthgen, 1943a: 99, 121, subgenus of Polistes Latreille.

Type species: Polistes associus Kohl, 1898, by original designation.