Colymbetes is a genus of beetles native to the Palearctic, including Europe, the Nearctic, the Near East and North Africa.
| Colymbetes | |
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| Colymbetes fuscus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dytiscidae |
| Subfamily: | Colymbetinae |
| Tribe: | Colymbetini |
| Genus: | Colymbetes Clairville, 1806 |
| Synonyms | |
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Cymatopterus Dejean, 1833 | |
It contains the following species:[1]
- Colymbetes aemulus Heer, 1862
- Colymbetes dahuricus Aubé, 1837
- Colymbetes densus LeConte, 1859
- Colymbetes dolabratus (Paykull, 1798)
- Colymbetes exaratus LeConte, 1862
- Colymbetes fuscus (Linnaeus, 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, 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
edit- ^ Dytiscidae Species List at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 7 May 2012.
External links
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Data related to Colymbetes at Wikispecies- Colymbetes at Fauna Europaea
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