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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) » Broad-footed Cellophane Bee (Colletes latitarsis)

Species Colletes latitarsis - Broad-footed Cellophane Bee

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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Colletes latitarsis mating - Colletes latitarsis - male - female

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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 latitarsis (Broad-footed Cellophane Bee)

Explanation of Names

The female hind basitarsi is very broad.(1)

Size

Female—Length 11 mm(2)

Male—Length 8-9 mm(2)

Identification

To differentiate it from the similar Colletes willistoni:(1)

Female: The second trasal segment of the hind legs are short, approximately as broad as long, and the hind basitarsi are two and one fourth (2.25) times as long as broad.

Male: The hind basitarsi of the is two and one fourth (2.25) times as long a broad.

See below:

Range

Florida to Louisiana, north to New York, Michigan and Wisconsin. Stephen states that the range of this species extends west as far as Arizona.(1)

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Season

March to September.

Food

Usual host plant is Physalis. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Print References

A revision of the genus Colletes in America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Colletidae)(1) (C. latitarsi can be found on page 229)

Mitchell, T.B. (1960) Bees of the eastern United States. I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station), 141, 1-538. [Introduction, Andrenidae, Colletidae, Halictidae, Mellitidae](2)

Internet References

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ITIS

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the genus Colletes in America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Colletidae)

2.	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.).

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 4 August, 2007 - 12:26pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, hg, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 13 August, 2020 - 12:34pm

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