{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Leptopternis | authority = Saussure, 1884 | display_parents = 2 | synonyms = Leptoternis Harz, 1975 }} {{external media|width=225px |image1 = [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/753231-Leptopternis/browse_photos Images at iNaturalist] }}
'''''Leptopternis''''' is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers, unplaced in subfamily Oedipodinae, erected by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1884<ref>de Saussure HLF (1884) ''Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve'' 28(9): 193, 198, 209.</ref> (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).<ref name = OSF/>
== Species == The ''Orthoptera Species File''<ref name = OSF>[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)]</ref> lists:
# ''Leptopternis gracilis'' {{Au|(Eversmann, 1848)}} - '''type species''' (as ''Oedipoda gracilis'' Eversmann, by subsequent designation.<ref>Kirby WF (1910) ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 3(2): 674 pp.</ref> # ''Leptopternis iliensis'' {{Au|Uvarov, 1925}} # ''Leptopternis maculata'' {{Au|Vosseler, 1902}} # ''Leptopternis rothschildi'' {{Au|Bolívar, 1913}} # ''Leptopternis vosseleri'' {{Au|Bolívar, 1914}}
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== External links== *{{wikispecies inline|Unassigned Oedipodinae}} {{taxonbar|from=Q10559087}}
Category:Caelifera genera Category:Orthoptera of Africa Category:Orthoptera of Asia Category:Orthoptera of Europe Category:Oedipodinae Category:Taxa named by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure