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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) » Spine-shouldered Cellophane Bee (Colletes simulans) » Nevada Spine-shouldered Cellophane Bee (Colletes simulans nevadensis)
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Plasterer Bee - Colletes simulans - female
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hemberger

Plasterer Bee - Colletes simulans - Female
Irvine Park, Orange, Orange County, California, USA
November 1, 2006

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Plasterer Bee - Colletes simulans - female Plasterer Bee - Colletes simulans - female Plasterer Bee - Colletes simulans - female
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 1 November, 2006 - 10:16pm
Last updated 14 June, 2009 - 11:21am

 
Thanks!
I got lucky.
… Ron Hemberger, 23 July, 2011 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Colletes simulans.
… John S. Ascher, 15 March, 2009 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the upgrade, John
...
… Ron Hemberger, 15 March, 2009 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cellophane bees.
… John S. Ascher, 22 April, 2007 - 7:46pm login or register to post comments

Colletes simulans nevadensis Swenk
species ID based in part on late flight season, host plant, apparent short malar space, tip of long prothoracic spine visible in the front view, centers of both scutum and scutellum with black hairs and large bare area, exact distribution of hairs inlcuding white basal hair bands on terga
… John S. Ascher, 20 April, 2007 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John
Nicely detailed. I've requested a new species page.
… Ron Hemberger, 20 April, 2007 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

 
I just moved it to a new guide page
the first one I've made
… John S. Ascher, 22 April, 2007 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
The first of many, I'm sure.
Thanks; that was easy for a change. We'll work up some more!
… Ron Hemberger, 22 April, 2007 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

Forewing venation...
is perfectly visible here and confirms previous ID: 2nd and 3rd submarginal cells of roughly the same size, combined with an only faintly curved "basal" vein, are another hallmark for Colletes.
… Richard Vernier, 2 November, 2006 - 7:39am login or register to post comments

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