Colletes edentulus NOSKIEWICZ 1936

Kuhlmann, M., 2010, Taxonomic notes on some Palaearctic Colletes bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Colletidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1), pp. 749-755 : 750

Colletes edentulus NOSKIEWICZ 1936

Colletes edentulus NOSKIEWICZ 1936 - NOSKIEWICZ 1936: 329-330.

Description of female: The female of C. edentulus differs from C. tuberculatus only in the sculpture of the clypeus, the punctation of the terga, and the width of posterior tergal hair bands. In C. edentulus , the punctation of the clypeus is finer and the punctures are more rounded apically (Fig. 2) than in C. tuberculatus (Fig. 1). The posterior hair band of T1 is slightly broader in C. edentulus (Fig. 5) than in C. tuberculatus (Fig. 4), and the surface of T1 is flatter and slightly irregular as the light reflections show (Fig. 5), whereas in C. tuberculatus T1 is regularly convex (Fig. 4). Punctation on the disc of T1 is similar in both species, but in C. tuberculatus it becomes progressively smaller and denser towards the apex but is still distinct (Fig. 4), whereas in C. edentulus the apical punctation is indistinct, more dispersed, and slightly larger (Fig. 5).