Colymbetinae (lat.) - subfamily of swimmers .
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 Pond Beetle ( Colymbetes fuscus ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Colymbetinae Erichson , 1837 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ecology
They live mainly in floodplain lakes. Rarely in the foothill reservoirs are isolated representatives of the genera Colymbetes and Rhantus . The only rheophilic species is Rhantus suturalis. They fly well into the light [1]
Systematics
In the world fauna, 129 species are found, united in 10 genera. In Russia, there are 12 species [1] .
- Anisomeriini
- Anisomeria Brinck, 1943
- Carabdytini
- Carabdytes Balke, Hendrich & Wewalka, 1992
- Colymbetini
- Colymbetes de Clairville, 1806
- Meladema Laporte, 1835
- Melanodytes Seidlitz, 1887
- Rhantus Dejean, 1833
Notes
- β 1 2 Brekhov, O. G. Fauna and Some Ecological Features of the Coleopterans from the subfamily Colymbetinae and Copelatinae (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in the South of European Russia // News of Higher Education Institutions. North Caucasus region. Series: Natural Sciences: Journal. - 2012. - No. 4 (170) . - S. 59-62 . - ISSN 0321-3005 .