Leptopternis

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]

Leptopternis
Scientific classification
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