219) Polistes (Polistes) associus Kohl, 1898

Polistes associa Kohl, 1898: 89 . Type data: NHMW. Type locality: Poros, Greece. Distribution. India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir. Elsewhere: Austria; Azerbaijan; China; Croatia; France;

Greece; Hungary; Iran; Italy; Israel; Malta; Pakistan; Russia; Slovakia; southern Europe; Switzerland; Tajiki-

stan; Turkey. (Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter 1996, Gupta 2008, Rafi et al. 2017).