Leptopternis

Leptopternis is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, unplaced in subfamily Oedipodinae, erected by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1884[1] (originally placed as a subgenus of Sphingonotus). The recorded distribution of species is: North Africa, Europe (Russia) through to central Asia (but records are probably incomplete).[2]

Leptopternis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Genus: Leptopternis
Saussure, 1884
Synonyms

Leptoternis Harz, 1975

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Species

The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists:

  1. Leptopternis gracilis (Eversmann, 1848) - type species (as Oedipoda gracilis Eversmann, by subsequent designation.[3]
  2. Leptopternis iliensis Uvarov, 1925
  3. Leptopternis maculata Vosseler, 1902
  4. Leptopternis rothschildi Bolívar, 1913
  5. Leptopternis vosseleri Bolívar, 1914

References
  1. de Saussure HLF (1884) Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 28(9): 193, 198, 209.
  2. Orthoptera Species File: genus Leptopternis Saussure, 1884 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 25 January 2024)
  3. Kirby WF (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2): 674 pp.
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