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Colletidae
Also known as plasterer bees, polyester bees
The Colletidae are a family of bees, and are often referred to collectively as plasterer bees or polyester bees, due to the method of smoothing the walls of their nest cells with secretions applied with their mouthparts; these secretions dry into a cellophane-like lining. The five subfamilies, 54 genera, and over 2000 species are all evidently solitary (with the known exception of but one species, Amphylaeus morosus), though many nest in aggregations. Two of the subfamilies, Euryglossinae and Hylaeinae, lack the external pollen-carrying apparatus (the scopa) that otherwise characterizes most b
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyColletidae
分舌花蜂科（學名：Colletidae），又稱穴泥蜂科，是膜翅目細腰亞目蜜蜂总科之下的一個科，屬於一種昆蟲綱的節肢動物。 本科物種會令用牠們的口器去把分泌物塗抹到蜂巢內各個單位的內壁，以使之變得平滑。這些分泌物乾涸後會令蜂巢的內壁變得好像被襯了一層玻璃紙那像。 分舌花蜂科之下有5亞科、54屬，合計超過2000個物種。這些物種並不是好像蜜蜂那樣群居，而是很明顯的孤立生活，即使牠們的蜂巢很多時候都建築在一起。當中其中兩個亞科（Euryglossinae與Hylaeinae）的物種並沒有讓牠們攜帶花粉的裝備，而這些裝備在其他蜂類都很常見。
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The Colletidae are a family of bees, and are often referred to collectively as plasterer bees or polyester bees, due to the method of smoothing the walls of their nest cells with secretions applied with their mouthparts; these secretions dry into a cellophane-like lining. The five subfamilies, 54 genera, and over 2000 species are all evidently solitary (with the known exception of but one species, Amphylaeus morosus), though many nest in aggregations. Two of the subfamilies, Euryglossinae and Hylaeinae, lack the external pollen-carrying apparatus (the scopa) that otherwise characterizes most bees, and instead carry the pollen in their crops. These groups, and most genera in this family, have liquid or semiliquid pollen masses on which the larvae develop.
They can be found all over the world, but the most species live in South America and Australia. Over 50% of all bee species living in Australia belong to this family. Only the genera Colletes and Hylaeus can be found in Europe, while in the Western Hemisphere, in addition to these two, the genera Caupolicana, Eulonchopria, and Ptiloglossa are found.