Colletes simulans

Colletes simulans is a species in the family Colletidae ("cellophane or plasterer, masked, and fork-tongued bees"), in the order Hymenoptera ("ants, bees, wasps and sawflies").^[1][2] The species is known generally as the spine-shouldered cellophane bee.^[3] It is found in North America.^[2][4][5]

Colletes simulans
Vermont, 2022
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Colletidae
Genus:	Colletes
Species:	C. simulans
Binomial name
Colletes simulans Cresson, 1868