Colletes banksi Swenk, 1908

Zarrillo, Tracy A., Stoner, Kimberly A. & Ascher, John S., 2025, Biodiversity of Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Connecticut (USA), Zootaxa 5586 (1), pp. 1-138 : 100

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scientific name	Colletes banksi Swenk, 1908
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Colletes banksi Swenk, 1908 View in CoL (hyalinus group)

Banks’ Cellophane Bee

Notes: This rarely captured species is a specialist on holly ( Ilex ) (Deyrup et al. 2002). The only two known Connecticut specimens were collected in 2012 in the town of Salem (New London County) near a gravelly, sandy, unfinished road.

Material examined. New London Co.: Salem: “jct. Rt. 11/82”, 41.46 -72.26805, 14–16 June 2012, coll. D.L. Wagner, 1 ♀, UCMS, det. J.S. Ascher , bee bowl, UCMS _ ENT 00050043 View Materials ; “Rt. 11 Extension”, 41.46166 - 72.27138, 14 June 2012, coll. F. Morrison, 1 ♂, UCMS, det. J.S. Ascher GoogleMaps 2012, UCMS _ ENT 00050148 View Materials .