Colletes latipes Friese 1915

Colletes latipes Friese 1915: 266, 268, 277–278, ♂ lectotype [designated by Kuhlmann, 1998] (type locality: “NO.-Afrika, Abessinien, Harrar”) (ZMHB, examined).

New records (6 specimens). ETHIOPIA: 1 ♀, 2 ♂, Bonga, Bachtal, E36°27′08′′ N07°14′28′′, 2620 m, 7.xii.2014, H.-J. Flügel, on Lotus cf. discolor E. Mey (PCHF, RCMK) ; 1 ♀, Bonga, Boka-Forest, Saum + Lichtung, E36°22′29′′ N07°18′05′′, 2439 m, 11.xii.2014, H.-J. Flügel (RCMK) ; 1 ♂, Harrar, [E42°07′ N09°18′], 1908, Kristensen (NHMW) ; 1 ♂, idem, 1911, Kristensen (NHMW) .

Remarks. The male collected in 1911 by Kristensen in Harrar is labeled exactly like the type material housed in the museums in Berlin and Frankfurt (Kuhlmann 1998) and presumably belongs to the original type series (see Kuhlmann 2018).

General distribution. The species is apparently endemic to the highlands of Ethiopia.