Colletes banksi Swenk, 1908:19, Muma, 1952Muma, M.H. 1952. Insect types in the collections of the University of Nebraska State Museum. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 3 (8):1-35.:18, Type ♀ (University of Nebraska State Museum); Stephen, 1954Stephen, W.P. 1954. A revision of the bee genus Colletes in America north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 36:149-527.:384, Type (University of Nebraska). Synonymized with Colletes distinctus Cresson, 1868 by Stephen, 1954Stephen, W.P. 1954. A revision of the bee genus Colletes in America north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 36:149-527.:382. - Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Hall et al., 2016Hall, H.G., D.T. Almquist & J.S. Asher 2016. A new species of Colletes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) from northern Florida and Georgia, with notes on the Colletes of those states. Journal of Melittology 58:1-20. (distribution); Owens et al., 2018Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307. (distribution).
Colletes ilicis Mitchell, 1951:234, Stephen, 1954Stephen, W.P. 1954. A revision of the bee genus Colletes in America north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 36:149-527.:384, Type (collection of T. B. Mitchell at Raleigh, N. C.). Synonymized with Colletes distinctus Cresson, 1868 by Stephen, 1954Stephen, W.P. 1954. A revision of the bee genus Colletes in America north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 36:149-527.:382. - Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538.:32 ( listed as synonym of Colletes banksi Swenk, 1908); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1754 ( listed as synonym of Colletes banksi Swenk, 1908).