Colletes thoracica Smith, 1853:5, ♂♀. ♂♀, St. John's Bluff, East Florida; 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.:397, Holotype (British Museum (Natural History), London, England). - Cresson, 1868Cresson, E.T. 1868. Descriptions of North American bees. No. 1. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 12:165-171. (distribution); Robertson, 1895Robertson, C. 1895. Notes on bees, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 22 (2):115-128. (distribution). - As Colletes thoracicus: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); 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. (distribution); 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); Pascarella, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (distribution); Hall & Ascher, 2011Hall, H.G., & J.S. Ascher 2011. Surveys of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in organic farms of Alachua County in north-central Florida. The Florida Entomologist 94 (3):539-552. (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 rufithorax Swenk, 1906:42, 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.:397, Holotype (University of Nebraska). Synonymized with Colletes thoracicus Smith, 1853 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.:393. - Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538.:50 ( listed as synonym of Colletes thoracicus Smith, 1853); 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.:1755 ( listed as synonym of Colletes thoracicus Smith, 1853).
Colletes pulcher Swenk, 1906:43, 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.:397, Holotype (University of Nebraska). Synonymized with Colletes thoracicus Smith, 1853 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.:393. - Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538.:50 ( listed as synonym of Colletes thoracicus Smith, 1853); 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.:1755 ( listed as synonym of Colletes thoracicus Smith, 1853).