Leptopternis
Sign in to saveLeptopternis 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: North Africa, Europe (Russia) through to central Asia (but records are probably incomplete).
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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: North Africa, Europe (Russia) through to central Asia (but records are probably incomplete).
== Species == The Orthoptera Species File lists: Leptopternis gracilis - type species (as Oedipoda gracilis Eversmann, by subsequent designation. Leptopternis iliensis Leptopternis maculata Leptopternis rothschildi Leptopternis vosseleri
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