Polistes (Gyrostoma) rothneyi carletoni van der Vecht, 1968

Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Carpenter Muhammad Qasim, James M., Shehzad, Anjum, Zia, Ahmed, Khan, Muhammad Rafique, Mastoi, Muhammad Ishaque, Naz, Falak, Ilyas, Muhammad, Shah, Mazafar & Bhatti, Abdul Rauf, 2017, The vespid fauna of Pakistan, Zootaxa 4362 (1), pp. 1-28 : 20

Polistes (Gyrostoma) rothneyi carletoni van der Vecht, 1968

Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Federal Capital area: Islamabad , 20.viii.08, Leg. A. Rafi. ♀ ; Punjab: Murree : 14.vi.2015, Leg. M. Qasim, ♀ ; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral: Drosh , 21.vi.08, Leg. A. Zia, ♀ .

Remarks: Earlier Chaudhry et al. (1966) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Hazara. Das & Gupta (1984; 1989) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral; Punjab: Jhelum velley, Murree hills. Dvořák (2007) reported this species from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral: Bamboret valley, Brun. Mahmood et al. (2012) recorded it from Islamabad; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Dir, Miadam, Mansehra, Jaba, Gari Habibullah, Abbottabad, Mardan, Peshawar; Gilgit-Baltistan: Daimer, Bagrot, Sassi and Gech. Siddiqui et al. (2015) recorded it from Punjab: Attock and Rawalpindi. Shah (2015) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Mansehra, Balakot, Baffa, Abbottabad, Havelian and Ayubia. Faiz et al. (2016) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Gilgit, Ghizer and Astore.

Distribution: India; Nepal; Pakistan ( Chaudhry et al. 1966; Das & Gupta 1989; Carpenter 1996; Dvořák 2007; Faiz et al. 2016).