Leptopternis

Genus of grasshoppers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Caelifera
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Leptopternis
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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

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