''Celes'' is a genus of
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
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grasshoppers
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Grasshop ...
in the
tribe
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Oedipodini, erected by
Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure
Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (; ; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising in studies of Hymenoptera and Orthopteroid insects. He also was a prolific taxonomist.
Biography
Saussu ...
in 1884.
[de Saussure HLF (1884) Prodromus Oedipodiorum, Insectorum ex Ordine Orthopterorum. ''Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève'' 28, 1–254, 1 pl 31] The recorded distribution of species is France and Spain in western Europe through temperate Asia to Japan (but locality records may be incomplete).
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Celes'' Saussure, 1884 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)]
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# '' Celes skalozubovi'' Adelung, 1906 (2 subspecies)
# '' Celes variabilis'' (Pallas, 1771) - type species (as ''Gryllus variabilis'' Pallas = ''C. variabilis variabilis'', one of 3 subspecies)
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Acrididae genera
Orthoptera of Asia
Orthoptera of Europe
Oedipodinae