Taxonomic revision of the species of Colletes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Colletinae) found in Chile Author Ferrari, Rafael R. text Zootaxa 2017 2017-12-14 4364 1 1 137 journal article 31159 10.11646/zootaxa.4364.1.1 d7085e10-1649-4f16-94c8-bd15cc188be6 1175-5326 1116008 313F4EAC-F03B-45BA-B346-FF52C165018A Colletes Latreille, 1802 Note. Synonymies presented for the genus are limited to those names applied to the Neotropical taxa (modified from Michener 1989 ). Colletes Latreille, 1802 : 423 . Type-species: Apis succincta Linnaeus, 1758 . Monia Westwood, 1875 : 221 (junior homonym of Monia Gray, 1850 ). Type-species: Monia grisea Westwood, 1875 . Monidia Cockerell, 1905 : 9 (new name for Monia Westwood (not Gray)). Ptilopoda Friese, 1921 : 83. Type-species: Colletes ( Ptilopoda ) maculipennis Friese, 1921 (junior synonym of Colletes spiloptera Cockerell, 1917a ). Diagnosis. Mid-sized, hairy, somewhat robust (males slightly slender) bees. Apex of glossa bilobed, compound eyes converging below at least in males, horizontal surface of metapostnotum limited posteriorly by carina (or sharp change in slope) and divided into pits by longitudinal carinae, posterior part of the second recurrent vein of forewing arcuate outwardly, basitibial and pygidial plates absent, prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae absent.