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Species Colletes hyalinus - Hyaline Cellophane Bee

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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 hyalinus (Hyaline Cellophane Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Colletes hyalinus Provancher, 1888

Colletes hyalina Provancher, 1888, incorrect termination; Colletes spurcus Viereck, 1903["1902"]; Colletes fraserae Swenk, 1908; Colletes cauponarius Cockerell, 1929; Colletes nitidicaudus Cockerell, 1929; Colletes gandialis_sic Cockerell, 1905; Colletes gaudialis Cockerell, 1905, emend.; Colletes hyalinus gaudialis Cockerell, 1905, valid subspecies; Colletes arenicola Cockerell, 1926; Colletes hyalinus oregonensis Timberlake, 1951, valid subspecies
Size
Female: length 9-10mm(1), wing 7mm(2)
Male: length 8mm(1), wing 5.75mm(2)
Range
Boreal species. In Canada it ranges from Nova Scotia to Yukon.

US:
Only found in Michigan and Maine in the east.
In the western US H. haylinus is found in the pacific northwest, California, Colorado, and Idaho to Montana.
Season
April to October
Food
Visits flowers from several families. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
Internet References
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)