Genus Colletes Latreille, 1802

Colletes Latreille 1802: 423 . Type species: Apis succincta Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.

A checklist of the Colletes species of China is provided in Table 1. All species of groups not treated in previous publications and additional records from China of species of the C. clypearis - and C. succinctus -groups are listed below in alphabetical order by their species-groups.

Species group Species Distribution in China

C. alini Kuhlmann, 2000 Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Colletes Liaoning, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Ningxia, Xinjiang caspicus -group C. anceps Radoszkowski, 1891 Xinjiang

C. morawitzi Noskiewicz, 1936 Xinjiang

C. cinerascens Morawitz, 1894 Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang

C. clypearis Morawitz, 1876 Xinjiang

C. floralis Eversmann, 1852 Hebei, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Xizang, Guangdong, Yunnan

Colletes C. friesei Cockerell, 1918 Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu

clypearis -group C. fulvicornis Noskiewicz, 1936 Xinjiang, Xizang, North-eastern China

C. harreri Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang

C. harrerioides Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2013 Xizang, Sichuan, Yunnan

......continued on the next page Species group Species Distribution in China

C. haubrugei Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang, Sichuan

C. hedini Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang

C. heilongtanensis Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2013 Yunnan

C. himalayensis Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang

C. hirsutus Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2013 Qinghai

C. impunctatus Nylander, 1852 Inner Mongolia

C. inspersus Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2013 Xizang

C. jankowskyi Radoszkowski, 1891 Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Gansu,

Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan Colletes

C. paratibeticus Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang

clypearis -group

C. sanctus Cockerell, 1910 Xizang, Sichuan

C. sidemii Radoszkowski, 1891 Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shandong,

Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan

C. sodalis (Cameron, 1897) Yunnan

C. tibeticus Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang

C. xizangensis Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2013 Xizang

C. xuezhongi Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, 2013 Xizang

C. daviesanus Smith, 1846 Qinghai, Heilongjiang

C. edentuloides Kuhlmann, 2011 Inner Mongolia, Jilin

C. fodiens (Fourcroy, 1785) Xinjiang

C. patellatus Pérez, 1905 Beijing, Henan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan; Colletes Zhejiang

fodiens -group C. pauljohni Kuhlmann, 2002 Xinjiang

C. perforator Smith, 1869 Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin;

Jiangxi

C. ravulus Noskiewicz, 1936 Xinjiang, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia

C. similis Schenck, 1853 Xinjiang

C. tuberculatus Morawitz, 1894 Qinghai

C. xuechengensis Kuhlmann, 2007 Xizang, Sichuan

C. annapurnensis Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang

C. brumalis Noskiewicz, 1936 Guangdong, Fujian, Hong Kong Colletes C. laevigena Noskiewicz, 1936 Xizang

foveolaris -group C. linzhiensis Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, sp. n. Xizang

C. luzhouensis Kuhlmann, 2007 Shanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Xizang, Sichuan,

Yunnan

C. pseudolaevigena Kuhlmann, 2002 Xizang

C. reinigi Noskiewicz, 1936 Gansu, Qinghai, Shanxi

......continued on the next page C. arsenjevi Kuhlmann, 2006 Shanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang

C. bhutanicus Kuhlmann, 2003 Xizang Colletes

succinctus -group C. collaris Dours, 1872 Beijing, Hebei, Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang,

Qinghai, Xizang, Sichuan, Yunnan

C. gigas Cockerell, 1918 Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi,

Guizhou, Hunan