Celes (grasshopper)

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).^[2]

Celes
Celes variabilis female: from Kazakhstan
Celes variabilis male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Oedipodinae
Tribe:	Oedipodini
Genus:	Celes Saussure, 1884

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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)