Colletes simulans Cresson, 1868 is a animal in the Colletidae family, order Hymenoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Colletes simulans Cresson, 1868

Colletes simulans Cresson, 1868

Colletes simulans, the spine-shouldered cellophane bee, is a North American bee species in the family Colletidae, order Hymenoptera.

Family
Genus
Colletes
Order
Hymenoptera
Class
Insecta

About Colletes simulans Cresson, 1868

Colletes simulans Cresson, 1868 is a bee species classified in the family Colletidae (commonly called cellophane bees, plasterer bees, masked bees, and fork-tongued bees), which belongs to the order Hymenoptera, the group that includes ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies. This species has the common name spine-shouldered cellophane bee, and it occurs in North America.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Colletidae Colletes

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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