Life Insecta Coleoptera Dytiscidae Colymbetinae

• Colymbetes fuscus (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • Dytiscus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 411

  • Colymbetes fuscus; Dettner, 1983, Aquatic Ins. 5: 42; Nilsson & Holmen, 1995, Fauna Ent. Scand. 32: (?); Nilsson, 2002, Ent. Fennica 13 (3): 192; [Bert Gustafsson]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
• Colymbetes paykulli Erichson, 1837

  • Colymbetes paykulli; [Bert Gustafsson]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
• Colymbetes striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) W.Siberia, W.Kazahstan. See [maps]

  • Dytiscus striatus Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1: 411

  • Colymbetes striatus; Konev, 1976, Ent. Review 55 (4): 57; Nilsson & Holmen, 1995, Fauna Ent. Scand. 32: 142; Nilsson, 2002, Ent. Fennica 13 (3): 190, f. 1a; [Bert Gustafsson]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
  • Cymatopterus striatus; Sahlberg, 1880, 54; [CoL]

  Misidentified/misapplied:

  • Cymatopterus striatus (= Colymbetes dolabratus); Poppius, 1905, Öfvers. Finska Vetensk.Soc. Förh. 47 (16): 23
  • Colymbetes striatus (= Colymbetes pseudostriatus); Balfour-Browne, 1947, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (11) 13 (1946): 451
• Colymbetes dolabratus (Paykull, 1798) N.Scandinavia?, N.Canada?, Alaska?

  • Dytiscus dolabratus Paykull, 1798; Fauna Suecica, 1: 204
  • Colymbetes tolli Zaitzev, 1907; Russ. Ent. Obozr. 6 (1906): 209
  • Colymbetes tolli Zaitzev, 1910; Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, (8) 18 (9): 43
    • = ; Nilsson, 2002, Ent. Fennica 13 (3): 190

  • Colymbetes dolabratus; Nilsson & Holmen, 1995, Fauna Ent. Scand. 32: 144; Nilsson, 2002, Ent. Fennica 13 (3): 190, f. 1b; [Bert Gustafsson]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
  • Colymbetes dolobratus; Zimmermann, 1981, Coleopterists Bull. 35 (1): 10 (missp.); Dettner, 1983, Aquatic Ins. 5: 42 (missp.)

  Misidentified/misapplied:

  • Colymbetes tolli (= Colymbetes pseudostriatus); Nilsson & Kholin, 1994, Ent. Tidskr 115: 151
  • Colymbetes tolli (= Colymbetes pseudostriatus); Nilsson, 1995, in Jäch & Ji, Water beetles of China, 1: 67 (part)
  • Colymbetes tolli (= Colymbetes pseudostriatus); Nilsson, Kholin & Minakawa, 1999, Beitr. zur Entom. 49: 122
  • C. d. thomsoni Sharp Iceland, ...?

    996x780 (~155Kb) Iceland, Reykjavik, Mosfellsheidi, 22.6.2005, Photo © Johannes Skaftason

    1212x1200 (~114Kb) larva Iceland, Reykjavik, Mosfellsheidi, 15.6.2005, Photo © Johannes Skaftason

    1188x711 (~74Kb) larva Iceland: Holmsheidi east of Reykjavik, 24.5.2008, Photo © Johannes Skaftason

• Colymbetes pseudostriatus Nilsson, 2002 Russia (Buryatia, Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin), China (Heilongjiang), Japan (Hokkaido, N.Honshu). See [maps]

  • Colymbetes pseudostriatus Nilsson, 2002; Ent. Fennica 13 (3): 191, f. 1c-d; TL: S.Sakhalin, NW Starodubskoye, Lake Malyy Pribrezhnoye

  • Colymbetes sp.; Mori & Kitayama, 1993, Dytiscoidea of Japan: 125
  • Colymbetes pseudostriatus; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]
• Colymbetes schildknechti Dettner, 1983 Mediterranean. See [maps]

  • Colymbetes schildknechti Dettner, 1983; Aquatic Ins. 5: (39-44); TL: Sardinia

  • Colymbetes schildknechti; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

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