''Leptopternis'' is a genus of
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are amongst what are possibly the most ancient living groups of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grassh ...
, 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 people, Swiss mineralogist, taxonomist and entomologist specialising in studies of hymenopteroid and Polyneoptera, orthopteroid insects.
Education, ca ...
in 1884 (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).
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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'' - type species (as ''Oedipoda
''Oedipoda'' is the type genus of grasshoppers, in the subfamily Oedipodinae, mostly from the Palaearctic realm. The type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') ...
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
Taxa named by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure