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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) » americanus species group (Colletes americanus species group)
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Furry Yellow Bee - Colletes
Copyright © 2012 Bob Webster

Furry Yellow Bee - Colletes
Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma, USA
August 20, 2012
Colletes slevini?

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Contributed by Bob Webster on 21 August, 2012 - 11:19am
Last updated 7 March, 2014 - 11:50pm

Resembles Colletes solidaginis
but that species is unknown from OK and KS as far as I know (it is known from Nebraska, the type locality).


Seems like too much ochraceous hair on tergal discs to be C. mandibularis and I don't know of other similar species in the region.
… John S. Ascher, 25 January, 2023 - 10:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cellophane bees.
… John S. Ascher, 7 March, 2014 - 11:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 21 August, 2012 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

Colletes female
not slevini
… John S. Ascher, 21 August, 2012 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

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