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GENUS   Colletes

Author: Latreille, 1802

Type species: Apis succincta Linnaeus, 1758, monobasic.
Synonyms: Evodia Panzer, 1806; Monia Westwood, 1875; Monidia Cockerell, 1905; Rhynchocolettes Moure, 1943.
Clade: Anthophila
Family: Colletidae
Subfamily: Colletinae
Tribe: Colletini
Estimated min and max body length from the genus.
Countries with known records of the genus (based on Nieto et al. 2014)
Estimated difficulty to accurately identify a specimen as belonging to this genus.
Distinctive traits
  •  3 submarginal cells (1>2=3)
  • Face with eyes converging towards the clypeus
  • Glossa ('tongue') bifid
  • second recurrent vein is sigmoid ("S" shaped).
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Morphologically close genera and how to distinguish them:
  • Colletes - Halictus & Andrena
Colletes has submarginal cells 2 and 3 of equivalent size. The tongue is bifid. The second recurrent vein is "S"-shaped, T1 and T2 are the largest segments of the metasoma.
Halictus & Andrena have submarginal cells 2 smaller than 3, a tongue pointed and the second recurrent vein is arched or straight. T3 and T4 are the largest segments of the metasoma.
  • Colletes - Apis
Colletes females have a sigmoid second recurrent vein, the marginal cell is not banana-shaped, the eyes are hairless. Colletes males have normal eyes, not enlarged neither touching at the top of the head.
Apis females have a straight second recurrent vein, the marginal cell is banana-shaped, the eyes have hairs. Apis males have enlarged eyes meeting at the top of the head.
General comments on Colletes species identification
Colletes identification requires genitalia and seventh sternite exposed for the males. Punctation of propodeum and first tergites are important to identify the females.
SPECIES IDENTIFICATION TOOL
Sorry, but the species identification tool is not yet available for Colletes. 
Please check the reference(s) at the bottom of the page for traditional keys.

List of the 61 Colletes species found in Europe (UICN 2014 + Rasmont et al. 2017)

Colletes abeillei Pérez, 1903
Colletes acutiformis Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes acutus Pérez, 1903
Colletes albomaculatus (Lucas, 1849)
Colletes anchusae Noskiewicz, 1924
Colletes brevigena Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes canescens Smith, 1853
Colletes carinatus Radoszkowski, 1891
Colletes cariniger Pérez, 1903
Colletes caskanus (Strand, 1919)
Colletes caspicus Morawitz, 1874
Colletes collaris Dours, 1872
Colletes creticus Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes cunicularius (L., 1761)
Colletes cyprius Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes daviesanus Smith, 1846
Colletes dimidiatus Brullé, 1840
Colletes dinizi Kuhlmann, Ortiz & Ornosa, 2001
Colletes dusmeti Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes eous Morice, 1904
Colletes escalerai Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes floralis Eversmann, 1852
Colletes fodiens (Fourcroy, 1785)
Colletes foveolaris Pérez, 1903
Colletes gallicus Radoszkowski, 1891
Colletes graeffei Alfken, 1900
Colletes halophilus Verhoeff, 1944
Colletes hederae Schmidt & Westrich, 1993
Colletes hethiticus Warncke, 1978
Colletes hylaeiformis Eversmann, 1852
Colletes ibericus Noskiewicz, 1936



Colletes impunctatus Nylander, 1852
Colletes inexpectatus Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes lebedewi Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes ligatus Erichson, 1835
Colletes maidli Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes marginatus Smith, 1846
Colletes merceti Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes meyeri Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes mlokossewiczi Radoszkowski, 1891
Colletes moricei Saunders, 1904
Colletes nadigi Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes nasutus Smith, 1853
Colletes nigricans Gistel, 1857
Colletes noskiewiczi Cockerell, 1942
Colletes pallescens Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes popovi Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes pulchellus Pérez, 1903
Colletes punctatus Mocsáry, 1877
Colletes rubellus Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes schmidi Noskiewicz, 1962
Colletes senilis (Eversmann, 1852)
Colletes sierrensis Frey-Gessner, 1903
Colletes similis Schenk, 1853
Colletes standfussi Kuhlmann, 2003
Colletes succinctus (L., 1758)
Colletes tardus Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes tuberculatus Morawitz, 1894
Colletes tuberculiger Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes uralensis Noskiewicz, 1936
Colletes wolfi Kuhlmann, 1999
References with identification keys for some of the species:
  • Amiet F., Müller A. & Neumeyer R.,1999. Apidae 2: Colletes, Dufourea, Hylaeus, Nomia, Nomioides, Rhophitoides, Rophites, Sphecodes, Systropha (Fauna Helvetica 4). Centre suisse de cartographie de la faune (CSCF), Neuchâtel, 239 pp.
  • Kuhlmann M. & Proshchalykin M.Y., 2014. The bees of the genus Colletes Latreille, 1802 of the European part of Russia, with keys to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae). Zootaxa 3878:201–247.Ortiz-Sánchez et al. (2004)*,
  • Proshchalykin M.Y. & Kuhlmann M., 2012. The bees of the genus Colletes Latreille, 1802 of the Ukraine, with a key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae). Zootaxa 3488 1-40.
  • Falk S.J. (2015) Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury wildlife guides. 432 p.
Online resources:
Atlas hymenoptera (World & Belgium)
BWARS (UK)
Discover Life (World)
WestPalBees (West Palearctic)
Page contributors:
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2019)

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References used to write this page:
  • Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World, 2nd Edition. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Michez D., Rasmont P., Terzo, M., Vereecken, N. 2019. Abeilles d'Europes. Hymenoptères d'Europes, Volume 1. N.A.P. Editions.
  • Nieto, A., Roberts, S. P., Kemp, J., Rasmont, P., Kuhlmann, M., García Criado, M., ... & Michez, D. 2014. European red list of bees. Luxembourg: Publication Office of the European Union, 98.
  •  Rasmont, P., Devalez, Jelle, Pauly, A., Michez, D. & Radchenko, V.G. 2017. Addition to the checklist of IUCN European wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Annales de la Société entomologique de France 53: 17-32.

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