Colymbetinae

Colymbetinae
Carabdytes upin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Dytiscidae
Subfamily:	Colymbetinae Erichson, 1837

Colymbetinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about 11 genera and at least 130 described species in Colymbetinae.

Rhantus suturellus

Genera

These 11 genera belong to the subfamily Colymbetinae:

• Anisomeria Brinck, 1943 ^{i c g}
• Bunites Spangler, 1972 ^{i c g}
• Carabdytes Balke, Hendrich and Wewalka, 1992 ^{i c g}
• Colymbetes Clairville, 1806 ^{i c g b}
• Hoperius Fall, 1927 ^{i c g b}
• Meladema Laporte, 1835 ^{i c g}
• Melanodytes Seidlitz, 1887 ^{i c g}
• Neoscutopterus J. Balfour-Browne, 1943 ^{i c g b}
• Rhantus Dejean, 1833 ^{i c g b}
• Rugosus García, 2001 ^{i c g}
• Senilites Brinck, 1948 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Larson, D. J.; Alarie, Y.; Roughley, R. E. (2001). "Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 94 (5): 769–770. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0769:PDBCDO]2.0.CO;2.
• Roughley, R. E.; Larson, D. J. (2001). "Family 12: Dytiscidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C. (eds.). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press. pp. 156–186. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9.
• Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. Bibcode:2012ZooK..245....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.

External links

• Media related to Colymbetinae at Wikimedia Commons