Genus Colletes - Cellophane bees

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

Class Insecta - Insects

Order Hymenoptera - Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies

No Taxon Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps

No Taxon Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees

Family Colletidae - Plasterer Bees, Masked or Yellow-faced Bees

Genus Colletes - Cellophane bees

Species compactus - Colletes compactus
Species inaequalis - Colletes inaequalis
Species latitarsis - Colletes latitarsis
Species simulans - Colletes simulans
Species thoracicus - Colletes thoracicus
No Taxon americanus species group
No Taxon aberrans or wilmattae

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