Celes (grasshopper) explained

Celes is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Oedipodini, erected by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1884.^[1] The recorded distribution of species is France and Spain in western Europe through temperate Asia to Japan (but locality records may be incomplete).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Celes skalozubovi Adelung, 1906 (2 subspecies)
2. Celes variabilis (Pallas, 1771) - type species (as Gryllus variabilis Pallas = C. variabilis variabilis, one of 3 subspecies)

Notes and References

1. 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 [131].
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1103548 Orthoptera Species File: genus Celes Saussure, 1884 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)