The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Colletoptera

(Apodidae; syn. Apus Little Swift A. affinis) Gr. κολλητος kollētos  closely joined; -πτερος -pteros  -feathered  < πτερον pteron  feather; "3.   ...   Tail not forked, or for less than ·25 inch:  Colletoptera gen. nov., type C. affinis Gray." (A. Roberts 1922); "Colletoptera A. Roberts, 1922, Annals Transvaal Mus., VIII (4), p. 217.  Type, by original designation, Cypselus affinis J. Gray, 1830." (JAJ 2020) (see Tachymarptis).


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