Colletes algarobiæ Cockerell, 1900:244, ♂♀. 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, May 20th, 1900 (leg. Nora Newberry); 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.:473, Holotype (United States National Museum). - Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1924Cockerell, T.D.A. 1924. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. The bees (II). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12 (27):529-560. (distribution); Timberlake, 1951Timberlake, P.H. 1951. Western bees of the genus Colletes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). The Wasmann Journal of Biology 9 (2):181-238. (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); 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); Vergara & Ayala, 2002Vergara, C.H. & R. Ayala 2002. Diversity, Phenology and Biogeography of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Zapotitlán de las Salinas, Puebla, Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 75 (1):16-30. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Esperanza de Pedro, 2021Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution).