Cellophane bees

Colletes (Cellophane Bees) is a genus of Hymenoptera in the family plasterer bees. They visit flowers of Aster pinnatifidus, wedgeleaf eryngo, alkali goldenbush, and Chloropyron maritimum maritimus.

EOL has data for 10 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
show all records
bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
show all records
host of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002453
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
show all records
Epeolus amabilis Gerstäcker 1869
mutualistic with
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002442
- Definition: An interaction relationship between two organisms living together in more or less intimate association in a relationship in which both organisms benefit from each other
- Attribution: Arctic Lichen Ecology
show all records
Salvia rosmarinus Schleid. (Rosemary)
parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
show all records
Epeolus kristenseni Friese 1915
cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
show all records
multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
show all records
developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
show all records
holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
show all records
eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
show all records
Eriogonum fasciculatum Benth. (California Buckwheat)
has host
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
show all records
Eriogonum leptocladon Torr. & Gray (sand buckwheat)
parasite of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002444
show all records
Epeolus diodontus Cockerell 1934
type specimen repository
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
- Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).
show all records
NHMUK
visits
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002618
show all records
Achillea (yarrow)
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
show all records
Isocoma menziesii (Hook. & Arn.) G. L. Nesom (Menzies' goldenbush)

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Cellophane bees. View this species on GBIF

J Madsen cc-by-nc

Colletes Latreille 1802

Cellophane bees includes 461 children: