Leptopternis

Leptopternis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Genus:
Saussure, 1884
Synonyms

Leptoternis Harz, 1975

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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]

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

References

  1. ^ de Saussure HLF (1884) Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 28(9): 193, 198, 209.
  2. ^ a b 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.
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