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Colletes mandibularis Smith, 1853
Colletes similis_homonym Robertson, 1904; Colletes simulator Michener, 1951, replacement name

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Colletes mandibularis MALE mm .x f
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Colletes mandibularis MALE mm .x f

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Colletes mandibularis
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Colletes mandibularis
Colletes mandibularis, genital armature
© Mitchell, 1960 · 1
Colletes mandibularis, genital armature

Colletes mandibularis, female, face side
© John B. Pascarella, Valdosta State University, Georgia · 1
Colletes mandibularis, female, face side
Colletes mandibularis, female, mandible
© John B. Pascarella, Valdosta State University, Georgia · 1
Colletes mandibularis, female, mandible

Colletes mandibularis, female, side
© John B. Pascarella, Valdosta State University, Georgia · 1
Colletes mandibularis, female, side
Colletes mandibularis, figure10g
Mitchell, Bees of the Eastern United States, Vol. I, 1960 · 1
Colletes mandibularis, figure10g
Overview
Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.

FEMALE—Length 9 mm.; eyes strongly convergent below; malar space linear, hardly evident; facial foveae shining, broad medially, narrowed above and below; length and breadth of flagellar segments equal; clypeus bare, shining, closely and finely punctate; pubescence pale ochraceous throughout, entirely so on head and thorax; prothoracic angles not spinose; metapleural protuberance strongly mate, margin of the carina testaceous; tegulae dark ferruginous; wings subhyaline, veins and stigma ferruginous; punctures of scutum deep and distinct, close anteriorly, becoming sparse in center of posterior half; scutellum shining and impunctate along anterior border, otherwise closely and coarsely punctate; pleura very closely and deeply punctate; dorsal area of propodeum narrow, with shining quadrangular pits formed by the well separated striae; triangular area of posterior face and bare, lateral areas more dull reticulate, with long thin pubescence; front coxae spined; hind basitarsi slender, elongate; spurs pale ferruginous or yellowish; punctures of abdominal terga minute, close 2nd and following segments, more distinctly separated on 1st medially; hind margins abdominal terga narrowly ferruginous, with broad, dense, apical fasciae, discs very thinly tomentose and appearing dark; apical segment dark.

MALE—Length 7-8 mm.; eyes strongly convergent below; length of malar space about one-fourth its width; facial foveae shallow, barely evident, width of median antennal two-thirds their length; clypeus shining between fine and close punctures, largely hidden by pubescence; pubescence pale ochracous throughout, entirely so on head and thorax; prothoracic angles not spinose; metapleural protuberance strongly carinate, margin of the carina testaceous; tegulae pale wings subhyaline, veins and stigma ferruginous; punctures close and deep on sparse in center of disc and on anterior half of scutellum, close and coarse on scutellum posteriorly; pleura shining below, deeply punctate, the punctures well separated becoming crowded above; dorsal area of propodeum shining between distinct but irregular striae; spurs and tarsal segments pale, ferruginous or testaceous; basitarsi slender, elongate; basal abdominal terga finely but punctate, closely so on the 2nd and only slightly separated in center of disc of 1st; abdominal fasciae entire, quite broad, pale ochraceous; integument beneath ferruginous-hyaline.

DISTRIBUTION—In the East this species is generally distributed from Florida and Texas to Nova Scotia and Minnesota, but it ranges west to Utah, Idaho and British Columbia. It is in flight from June September, but Florida records include months of November, December, March, April and May.

FLOWER RECORDS—Berlandiera subcaulis, Ceanothus, Cirsium, Erigeron quercifolius, E. ramosus, Flaveria linearis, Melilotus alba and M. indica. Stephen records it also on Amorpha canescens, Amphiachris, Cassia fasciculata, Heterotheca subaxillaris, Isopappus divaricatus, Medicago sativa and Prionopsis ciliata. It is recorded by Robertson (1929) (as C. similis) on Pycnanthemum flexuosum.

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FamilyScientific name @ source (records)
Apiaceae  Daucus carota @ BBSL (1)
Asteraceae  Chrysothamnus sp @ BBSL (1)

Cirsium @ AMNH_BEE (2)

Erigeron strigosus @ AMNH_BEE (1)

Flaveria linearis @ CUIC_ENT (2)

Gutierrezia sarothrae @ BBSL (2)

Gutierrezia sp @ BBSL (1)

Solidago tenuifolia @ BBSL (1)

Solidago @ I_JSA (1)
Capparaceae  Cleome serrulata @ BBSL (1)
Chenopodiaceae  Salsola tragus @ BBSL (1)
Fabaceae  Medicago sativa @ BBSL (1)

Melilotus alba @ BBSL (2)

Melilotus officinalis @ BBSL (1); AMNH_BEE (5)

Melilotus sp @ BBSL (7)
Fagaceae  Quercus sp @ BBSL (1)
Tamaricaceae  Tamarix gallica @ BBSL (1)
_  Withheld @ BBSL (14)

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