Leptopternis Explained

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).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Leptopternis gracilis - type species (as Oedipoda gracilis Eversmann, by subsequent designation.^[3]
2. Leptopternis iliensis
3. Leptopternis maculata
4. Leptopternis rothschildi
5. Leptopternis vosseleri

Notes and References

1. de Saussure HLF (1884) Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 28(9): 193, 198, 209.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1104640 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.