The species of Colletinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais Author Ferrari, Rafael R. Author Silveira, Fernando A. text Zootaxa 2015 3914 3 245 274 journal article 42272 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.3.2 905855d4-a921-4d58-9ec5-7e2cceac95c0 1175-5326 244644 37289B14-D589-429D-9C02-8860F13B18AD Colletes Latreille, 1802 Colletes Latreille, 1802 . Type species: Apis succinta Linnaeus, 1758 . Monia Westwood, 1875 . Type species: Monia grisea Westwood, 1875 . (junior homonym of Monia Gray, 1850 ). Monidia Cockerell, 1905 . ( nom. nov. for Monia Westwood, 1875 ). Ptilopoda Friese, 1921 . Type species: Colletes (Ptilopoda) maculipennis Friese, 1921 . Diagnosis. ā™€ā™‚: mid-sized, robust, bees, rarely shorter than 8 mm ; bilobed glossa; F1 about as long as F2; pilose, the hairs longer than flagellum diameter at least on mesosoma; the basal portion of propodeum limited posteriorly by a carina (or sharp change in slope) and divided into pits by longitudinal carinae; fore wing with three submarginal cells; second recurrent vein of hindwing arched outward, ā€œSā€-shaped; pterostigma well developed, longer than prestigma; basitibial and pygidial plates and prepygidial and pygidial fimbria absent.