Colletes alini KUHLMANN , 2000

Colletes alini KUHLMANN, 2000 View in CoL

NOSKIEWICZ (1936) considered specimens originating from the Asian mainland, that were later recognised as a distinct taxon, to be identical with C. seitzi . The misidentification was recognised by KUHLMANN (1999, 2000) who described the continental taxon as the separate species C. alini .

Colletes alini View in CoL is restricted to East Asia and hitherto only known from China, Mongolia and East Russia. It is distributed from the continental Pacific coasts of NE China and SE Russia to the westernmost records in Khakassia Republic ( Russia) ( KUHLMANN & PROSHCHALYKIN 2011, PROSHCHALYKIN & KUHLMANN 2015), Chovd-Aimag ( Mongolia) ( KUHLMANN & DORN 2002, KUHLMANN & PROSHCHALYKIN 2013b) and Xinjiang Province ( China) ( NIU et al. 2014).

The bees are mainly active in July and August with very few earlier records from late May and June ( KUHLMANN & DORN 2002, KUHLMANN & PROSHCHALYKIN 2011, KUHLMANN & PROSHCHALYKIN 2013b, NIU et al. 2014, PROSHCHALYKIN & KUHLMANN 2015). The few available flower visitation records ( NIU et al. 2014) suggest that C. alini View in CoL is polylectic.