Genus Polistes Latreille, 1802 Polistes Latreille, 1802: 363. Type species: “ Polistes gallica, Fab. ” [= Vespa gallica Linnaeus], by subsequent designation of Latreille, 1810: 438. Eupolistes Dalla Torre, 1904: 68, name for “Premiere division” of Polistes Latreille in de Saussure, 1853: 45. Type species: Vespa gallica Linnaeus, 1767, by subsequent designation of Richards 1973: 86. Pseudopolistes Weyrauch, 1937: 266, 274. Unavailable; no type species designated. Sulcopolistes Blüthgen, 1938a: 273, as subgenus of Polistes Latreille. Type species: Polistes semenowi Morawitz, 1889, by original designation. Polistula Weyrauch, 1938: 273. Unavailable; no type species designated. Polistula Weyrauch, 1939: 148. 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, by original designation. Leptopolistes Blüthgen, 1943: 99, 121, as subgenus of Polistes Latreille. Type species: Polistes associus Kohl, by original designation. The genus Polistes is one of the largest in the family Vespidae. There are more than 200 species and various subspecies all over the world (Carpenter 1996).

Published as part of Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, pp. 501-524 in Zootaxa 3914 (5) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241739