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Spine-shouldered Cellophane Bee
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Spine-shouldered Cellophane Bee

Colletes simulans

Colletes simulans is a species in the family Colletidae ("cellophane or plasterer, masked, and fork-tongued bees"), in the order Hymenoptera ("ants, bees, wasps and sawflies"). The species is known generally as the "spine-shouldered cellophane bee". It is found in North America.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 179699.