Colletes dudgeonii Bingham, 1897

Colletes dudgeonii Bingham 1897: 409 . Colletes dentata Cameron 1898: 49 –51.

Wu (1982, 1987, 1992) recorded C. dudgeonii for China based on specimens collected in Yunnan, Sichuan and Xizang. However, no specimens of this very characteristic species, that is only known from north-western India (Kuhlmann 2003a, 2014), could be found in the collections of the Institute of Zoology in Beijing. Bees labelled as C. dudgeonii collected in Yunnan turned out to be C. yanruae, so C. dudgeonii is here removed from the list of Chinese Colletes species.