title: Colymbetes
text: # Colymbetes
  
  Colymbetes is a genus of beetles native to the Palearctic, including Europe, the Nearctic, the Near East and North Africa.
  
  It contains the following species:
  
  * 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
  