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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cellophane or Plasterer, Masked, and Fork-tongued Bees (Colletidae)

Family Colletidae - Cellophane or Plasterer, Masked, and Fork-tongued Bees

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Hylaeus ID Request - Hylaeus leptocephalus - male Colletes inaequalis - Colletes inaequalis Black bee on coriander flowers - Hylaeus Hylaeus? - Hylaeus modestus Wasp? - Hylaeus modestus cellophane bee - Colletes inaequalis - female Eastern Modest Masked Bee (Hylaeus modestus modestus) - Hylaeus modestus Hylaeus bee? - Hylaeus - male
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 (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Colletidae (Cellophane or Plasterer, Masked, and Fork-tongued Bees)
Other Common Names
Masked Bees
Numbers
ca. 160 spp. in 6 genera of 4 subfamilies in our area, >2,500 spp. in ~90 genera of 8 subfamilies worldwide(1)
Subfamilies:
Colletinae: ca. 100 spp. in a single genus in our area, almost 500 spp. in 2 genera total (the second genus is in S.America south of the equator)(1)
Diphaglossinae: 7 spp. in 3 genera in our area (all in the Caupolicanini), 130 spp. in 11 genera of 3 tribes total; this is a New World group, almost exclusively neotropical(1)
Hylaeinae: in our area, ~50 spp. in a single genus, 934 spp. in 7 genera worldwide; about ¾ of the global diversity is in the Old World; all the genera except the cosmopolitan Hylaeus are restricted to Australasia (~350 spp. are Australasian, too)(1)
Paracolletinae: a single species in our area, 430 spp. in 46 genera total; ~2/3 of the spp. are Australasian, the rest, Neotropical(1)
Overview of our fauna (* –taxa not yet in the guide)
Family Colletidae
Subfamily Colletinae Colletes
Subfamily Diphaglossinae
Tribe Caupolicanini Caupolicana, Ptiloglossa, Zikanapis
Subfamily Hylaeinae Hylaeus (subgenera Cephalylaeus, Hylaeana, Hylaeus, *Metziella, Paraprosopis, *Prosopella, Prosopis, Spatulariella)
Subfamily *Paracolletinae *Eulonchopria
Identification
Jugal lobe in HW longer than submedian cell. Basal vein straight or nearly so. One subantennal suture below each antennal socket. Glossa (tongue) short, bilobed or truncate.
2nd and 3rd submarginal cells are roughly the same size in Colletidae, while 2nd one is distinctly smaller in Andrenidae.(2)(3)
Guide to eastern genera in(4)
Range
Worldwide, most species live in South America and Australia.
Food
Pollen and nectar
Remarks
Two subfamilies, Euryglossinae and Hylaeinae, lack external pollen-carrying apparatus (scopa), they carry pollen in their crops.
Internet References
Discover Life
EoL
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Phylogeny of colletid bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) inferred from four nuclear genes
Wikipedia
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America
Richard E. White, Christopher Leahy, Roger Tory Peterson. 1998. Houghton Mifflin Co.
3.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.
4.Droege S. (2008) Andrenidae, Colletidae, Melittidae: a guide to their identification in eastern North America
Contributed by Richard Leung on 15 April, 2005 - 9:36pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov
Last updated 23 October, 2017 - 3:40am

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