''Leptopternis'' is a genus of
Palaearctic grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grasshop ...
, unplaced in subfamily
Oedipodinae, 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
Sauss ...
in 1884 (originally placed as a subgenus of ''
Sphingonotus
''Sphingonotus'' is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, subfamily Oedipodinae, found in Europe Africa, Asia and Australia.
Species
The Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of know ...
''). The recorded distribution of species is: North Africa, Europe (Russia) through to central Asia (but records are probably incomplete).
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Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File''[ Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Leptopternis'' Saussure, 1884 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 25 January 2024)]
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# ''Leptopternis gracilis
''Leptopternis'' is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, unplaced in subfamily Oedipodinae, erected by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1884 (originally placed as a subgenus of ''Sphingonotus''). The recorded distribution of species is: No ...
'' - type species (as ''Oedipoda
''Oedipoda'' is the type genus of grasshoppers, in the subfamily Oedipodinae, mostly from the Palaearctic realm. The type species is the European "blue-winged grasshopper", ''Oedipoda caerulescens''.
Species
The ''Orthoptera Species File'' list ...
gracilis'' Eversmann, by subsequent designation.[Kirby WF (1910) ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 3(2): 674 pp.]
# '' Leptopternis iliensis''
# '' Leptopternis maculata''
# '' Leptopternis rothschildi''
# '' Leptopternis vosseleri''
References
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Caelifera genera
Orthoptera of Africa
Orthoptera of Asia
Orthoptera of Europe
Oedipodinae