Description of a gynander of Colletes hedini (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China: the first record of gynandromorphism for the genus after 30 years

The first known gynander of the East Asian cellophane bee Colletes hedini Kuhlmann (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) is described and imaged. We provide an illustrated differential diagnosis based on terminalia, which are entirely male. also DNA barcoded to confirm its identity, complete barcode sequence made public. In single specimen discovered, distribution female male tissues patchy random (i.e., not split among tagmata or along a particular axis body) thus individual can be categorized as mosaic gynander. This discovery represents one only few confirmed cases gynandromorphism in colletid bees second Colletes.