About Colletes hederae Schmidt & Westrich, 1993
Female Colletes hederae have an average body length of 13 millimetres (0.51 in), while males measure about 10 mm (0.39 in) long. This species is significantly larger than the common colletes. Adult Colletes hederae have thoraxes covered in dense orange-brown hair, and each abdominal segment bears an apical orangey hair band. Colletes hederae is very similar to its close relative the heather colletes (Colletes succinctus), and even more similar to the sea aster mining bee (Colletes halophilus). This species has been recorded in Austria, Belgium, the Channel Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, southern England, Wales, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland.
