''Colymbetes'' is a genus of
beetle
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s native to the
Palearctic, including
Europe
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, the
Nearctic
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, the
Near East and
North Africa
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.
It contains the following species:
Dytiscidae Species List
at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 7 May 2012.
* '' Colymbetes aemulus'' Heer, 1862
* '' Colymbetes dahuricus'' Aubé, 1837
* '' Colymbetes densus'' LeConte, 1859
* '' Colymbetes dolabratus'' (Paykull, 1798)
* '' Colymbetes exaratus'' LeConte, 1862
* '' Colymbetes fuscus'' (Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758)
* '' Colymbetes incognitus'' Zimmerman, 1981
* '' Colymbetes koenigi'' Zaitzev, 1927
* '' Colymbetes magnus'' Feng, 1936
* '' Colymbetes mesepotamicus'' Abdul-Karim & Ali, 1986
* '' Colymbetes minimus'' Zaitzev, 1908
* '' Colymbetes miocaenicus'' Riha, 1974
* '' Colymbetes paykulli'' Erichson, 1837
* '' Colymbetes piceus'' Klug, 1834
* '' Colymbetes pseudostriatus'' Nilsson, 2002
* '' Colymbetes schildknechti'' Dettner, 1983
* '' Colymbetes sculptilis'' Harris, 1829
* '' Colymbetes semenowi'' (Jakovlev, 1896)
* '' Colymbetes striatus'' (Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758)
* '' Colymbetes strigatus'' LeConte, 1852
* '' Colymbetes substrigatus'' Sharp, 1882
* '' Colymbetes tschitscherini'' (Jakovlev, 1896)
* '' Colymbetes vagans'' Sharp, 1882
; Names brought to synonymy:
* ''Colymbetes elegans'' or ''Colymbetes multistriatus'', synonyms for '' Copelatus posticatus''
References
External links
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''Colymbetes'' at Fauna Europaea
Dytiscidae genera
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