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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Cellophane bees (Colletes) » Kincaid's Cellophane Bee (Colletes kincaidii)

Species Colletes kincaidii - Kincaid's Cellophane Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Season · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)
Family Colletidae (Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees)
Genus Colletes (Cellophane bees)
Species kincaidii (Kincaid's Cellophane Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Colletes kincaidii Cockerell, 1898

Colletes sieverti Cockerell, 1906; Colletes eulophi albertensis Cockerell, 1938; Colletes stricklandi Cockerell, 1938
Size
Female: 9-11 mm.(1) Wing 7.5mm(2)
Male: 7-9 mm.(1) Wing: 7mm(2)
Range
In the East it occurs in Nova Scotia, New York, Indiana and Illinois, and southward through the Appalachians as far as North Carolina, but it is primarily Western, reaching Arizona, California and British Columbia. Introduced worldwide.
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Season
In flight from early June to early September.
Internet References
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UNL The Nesting Biology of Colletes kincaidii Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) and Development of Its Immature Forms
Works Cited
1.Bees of the eastern United States
Mitchell T.B. 1962. Tech. Bull. (NC Agric. Exp. Sta.): No. 141 (538 pp.), 1960; and No. 152 (557 pp.).
2.A revision of the genus Colletes in America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Colletidae)
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 9 July, 2015 - 8:59am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 13 August, 2020 - 12:33pm

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