Taxonomic study on social wasps has been carried out since 1758 by Linnaeus. After that, there were many papers focused on the subject such as Linnaeus (1764, 1790), Bingham (1894), Cameron (1898, 1900), Buysson (1902, 1903), Bequaert (1918, 1936), Dover and Rao (1922), Liu (1936–1937), Gould and Jeanne (1984), Archer (1982, 1991), Carpenter (1996) with a distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes, Carpenter and Kojima (1997a, b) with a checklist of the species in the subfamilies Vespinae and Stenogastrinae, Carpenter and Wenzel (1999) with Polistinae wasps in the Congo Basin, Kojima and Carpenter (1997) with a catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini, Kojima (2001) on the wasp genus Ropalidia in New Guinea and its adjacent islands, Gusenleitner (2008) with a checklist of the Austrian vespid fauna, Carpenter (2008) with a review of Hawaiian Vespidae…