Polybia stigma Smith, 1858: 114. Type data: Male, OUM. Type locality: Sarawak, Malaysia.
Parapolybia stigma; Schulthess, 1913a: 164.
Icaria stigma; du Buysson, 1913: 296.
Ropalidia artifex; Bequaert, 1918: 247.
Ropalidia stigma stigma; van der Vecht, 1941: 110, 126.
Ropalidia stigma rufa van der Vecht, 1941: 130.
Ropalidia stigma nigrolineata van der Vecht, 1962: 18.
Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Hangarki Dharwad, 1.xii.2005, 1 ♀, Coll. Somannavar. Maharshtra: Bhimashankar Pune, 27.xi.2016, 6 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 22.ii.2017, 14 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas.
Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka (new record), Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Hong Kong); Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. ( Yamane 1979, Jonathan et al. 1996, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan et al. 2000b, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006a, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010, Gusenleitner 2011, Nugroho et al. 2012, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Tan et al. 2014a, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015 b, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017a, Girish Kumar et al. 2017a, Gawas et al. 2019).