Colletes gigas Cockerell, 1918

Colletes gigas Cockerell 1918: 158 –159; Wu 1965: 28; Kuhlmann 1999: 77; Yasumatsu, 1936: 244, ♂; Zhao et al. 2010 (nesting biology); Niu et al., 2013a: 174, ♀, ♂ (key), 182 (redescription of male), Figs. 16–23, Fig. 25.

Additional records: China, Sichuan: 1♀, Suifu (104°34´E 28°48´N), 20.XI.–5.XII.1927, D.C. Graham (RCMK); Jiangxi: 3♀♀, Xinyu Xian, Shuibei Town (115°04'E 28°04'N), ( Camellia oleifera), 14.XI.2012, Dun-Yuan Huang; 7♂♂, Xinyu Xian, Shuibei Town (115°04'E 28°04'N), ( Camellia oleifera), 30.X.2012, Dun-Yuan Huang; Guangdong: 1♀, Lo Fou Mts. (114°00´E 23°20´N), R.C.L. Perkins (NHML).

Floral association: Camellia oleifera (Theaceae) .

General distribution: China (Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Hunan).