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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Colletes - Cellophane bees

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

No Taxon americanus species group
No Taxon simulans species group
Species aberrans - Aberrant Cellophane Bee
Species birkmanni - Birkmann's Cellophane Bee
Species bryanti - Bryant's Cellophane Bee
Species compactus - Aster Cellophane Bee
Species fulgidus - Glittering Cellophane Bee
Species howardi - Howard's Cellophane Bee
Species hyalinus - Hyaline Cellophane Bee
Species inaequalis - Unequal Cellophane Bee
Species kincaidii - Kincaid's Cellophane Bee
Species latitarsis - Broad-footed Cellophane Bee
Species longifacies - Long-faced Cellophane Bee
Species lutzi - Lutz's Cellophane Bee
Species ochraceus - Ochraceous Cellophane Bee
Species phaceliae - Phacelia Cellophane Bee
Species punctipennis - Dot-winged Cellophane Bee
Species simulans - Spine-shouldered Cellophane Bee
Species slevini - Slevin's Cellophane Bee
Species solidaginis - Goldenrod Cellophane Bee
Species susannae - Susanna's Cellophane Bee
Species tectiventris - Hairy-tailed Cellophane Bee
Species thoracicus - Rufous-backed Cellophane Bee
Species ultravalidus - Sandhills Cellophane Bee
Species validus - Blueberry Cellophane Bee
No Taxon resembling Colletes louisae, Louisa's Cellophane Bee
No Taxon resembling Colletes skinneri, Skinner's Cellophane Bee
No Taxon resembling Colletes eulophi, Eulophia Cellophane Bee
No Taxon inaequalis or validus
No Taxon resembling Colletes paniscus paniscus, Nominate Panuscus Cellophane Bee
Species wilmattae - Wilmatte's Cellophane Bee