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.
Distribution: Bhutan: Lhuentse, Trashigang, Zhemgang, Chhukha, Wangduephodrang, Tsirang (Dorji, Klein, et al. 2017a, 2017b). Elsewhere: India; Nepal; Myanmar; Sri Lanka; Philippines; Thailand; Malaysia; Vietnam; Indonesia; China; Singapore (Barthélémy et al. 2014; Bui et al. 2020; Das & Gupta 1989; Dorji, Klein, et al. 2017a, 2017b; Gawas et al. 2020; Gawas, Kumar, Pannure & Sureshan 2019; Ghosh et al. 2020; Gusenleitner 2011; Kojima et al. 2007; Kumar & Sharma 2015b; Pham 2014; Pham & Li 2015; Sora et al. 2019; Tan, van Achterberg & Chen 2014).