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

Names brought to synonymy

• Colymbetes elegans or Colymbetes multistriatus, synonyms for Copelatus posticatus

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