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Colletes gigas Cockerell 1918

Description

Colletes gigas Cockerell, 1918

Colletes gigas Cockerell 1918: 158 –159; Wu 1965: 28; Kuhlmann 1999: 77; Yasumatsu, 1936: 244, ♂; Zhao et al. 2010 (nesting biology); Niu et al., 2013a: 174, ♀, ♂ (key), 182 (redescription of male), Figs. 16–23, Fig. 25.

Additional records: China, Sichuan: 1♀, Suifu (104°34´E 28°48´N), 20.XI.–5.XII.1927, D.C. Graham (RCMK); Jiangxi: 3♀♀, Xinyu Xian, Shuibei Town (115°04'E 28°04'N), (Camellia oleifera), 14.XI.2012, Dun-Yuan Huang; 7♂♂, Xinyu Xian, Shuibei Town (115°04'E 28°04'N), (Camellia oleifera), 30.X.2012, Dun-Yuan Huang; Guangdong: 1♀, Lo Fou Mts. (114°00´E 23°20´N), R.C.L. Perkins (NHML).

Floral association: Camellia oleifera (Theaceae).

General distribution: China (Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Hunan).

Notes

Published as part of Niu, Ze-Qing, Zhu, Chao-Dong & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2014, The Bees of the Genus Colletes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) from China, pp. 451-483 in Zootaxa 3856 (4) on page 478, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/250834

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Cockerell
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Colletidae
Genus
Colletes
Species
gigas
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Colletes gigas Cockerell, 1918 sec. Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2014

References

  • Cockerell, T. D. A. (1918) Descriptions and records of bees. - LXXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 1, 158 - 167.
  • Wu, Y. R. (1965) Economic Insect Fauna of China. Fasc. 9. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Science Press, Beijing, 83 pp. [in Chinese]
  • Kuhlmann, M. (1999) Colletes wolfi spec. nova from Italy, and lectotype designation for palaearctic bees of the genus Colletes Latr. with notes on new homonymies and synonymies (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Colletinae). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 31, 71 - 81.
  • Yasumatsu, K. (1936) A list of the known species of Colletidae from China and Japan, with description of the male of Colletes gigas Ckll. (Hym.). Entomology and Phytopathology, 4, 241 - 246.
  • Zhao, Y. H., Ding, L., Yuan, F., Zhang, Y. Z., Tu, L. H. & Zhu, C. D. (2010) Nesting biology of Colletes gigas Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 53, 1287 - 1294.
  • Niu, Z. Q., Kuhlmann, M. & Zhu, C. D. (2013 a) A review of Colletes succinctus - group (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Colletinae: Colletes) from China with redescription of the male of C. gigas. Zootaxa, 3626 (1), 1731 - 1787. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3626.1.7