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, 1862Colymbetes dahuricus Aubé, 1837Colymbetes densus LeConte, 1859Colymbetes dolabratus (Paykull, 1798)Colymbetes exaratus LeConte, 1862Colymbetes fuscus (Linnaeus, 1758)Colymbetes incognitus Zimmerman, 1981Colymbetes koenigi Zaitzev, 1927Colymbetes magnus Feng, 1936Colymbetes mesepotamicus Abdul-Karim & Ali, 1986Colymbetes minimus Zaitzev, 1908Colymbetes miocaenicus Riha, 1974Colymbetes paykulli Erichson, 1837Colymbetes piceus Klug, 1834Colymbetes pseudostriatus Nilsson, 2002Colymbetes schildknechti Dettner, 1983Colymbetes sculptilis Harris, 1829Colymbetes semenowi (Jakovlev, 1896)Colymbetes striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)Colymbetes strigatus LeConte, 1852Colymbetes substrigatus Sharp, 1882Colymbetes tschitscherini (Jakovlev, 1896)Colymbetes vagans Sharp, 1882Names brought to synonymyColymbetes elegans or Colymbetes multistriatus, synonyms for Copelatus posticatus