200) Polistes (Gyrostoma) wattii Cameron, 1900

Polistes wattii Cameron, 1900: 416 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Bengal, India.

Material examined. INDIA: Rajasthan: MPUAT Udaipur, 21.xi.2015, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh & Umeshkumar ; Bi- kaner, 4.x.2018, 1 ♀ & 1 ♂, Coll. Paresh Churi. Himachal Pradesh: Bajaura Kullu, 24.x.2017, 2 ♀, Coll. Ankita & Omprakash.

Distribution. India: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan; China; India; Iran; Iraq; Mauritius; Oman; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; U.A.E. (Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gupta 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000 a, Girish Kumar 2010, Kundu et al. 2010, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, Tan et al. 2014b, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b, Rafi et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017).