{{short description|Subfamily of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Aid to the identification of insects (Plate 23) (6025818427).jpg | image_caption = ''Leptysma'' | image_upright = 0.8 | taxon = Leptysminae | subdivision_ranks = Tribes | subdivision = * Chloropseustini <small> Amédégnato, 1974</small> * Leptysmini <small> Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893</small> * Tetrataeniini <small>Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893</small> }}

'''Leptysminae''' is a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. Members of this subfamily are known as '''spur-throat toothpick grasshoppers'''. There are at least 20 genera in Leptysminae, found in North, Central, and South America.<ref name=Otte2018/>

==Genera== These 21 genera belong to the subfamily Leptysminae:<ref name=Otte2018/> {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * ''Belosacris'' <small>Rehn & Eades, 1961</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Carbonellacris'' <small>Roberts, 1977</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Chloropseustes'' <small>Rehn, 1918</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Columbacris'' <small>Bruner, 1911</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Cornops'' <small>Scudder, 1875</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Cylindrotettix'' <small>Bruner, 1906</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Eumastusia'' <small>Bruner, 1911</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Guetaresia'' <small>Rehn, 1929</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Haroldgrantia'' <small>Carbonell, Ronderos & Mesa, 1967</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Leptysma'' <small>Stål, 1873</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> i c g b</sup></span> * ''Leptysmina'' <small>Giglio-Tos, 1894</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Mastusia'' <small>Stål, 1878</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Nadiacris'' <small>Descamps & Amédégnato, 1972</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Oxybleptella'' <small>Giglio-Tos, 1894</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Oxyphyma'' <small>Saussure, 1861</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Seabratettix'' <small>Roberts, 1980</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Stenacris'' <small>Walker, 1870</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> i c g b</sup></span> * ''Stenopola'' <small>Stål, 1873</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Tetrataenia'' <small>Stål, 1873</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Tucayaca'' <small>Bruner, 1920</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Xenismacris'' <small>Descamps & Amédégnato, 1972</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> {{Div col end}} <small>Data sources: i = ITIS,<ref name=itis/> c = Catalogue of Life,<ref name=catlife/> g = GBIF,<ref name=gbif/> b = Bugguide.net<ref name=bugguide/></small>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=Leptysminae Report | url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=650532 | website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System | accessdate=2018-12-29 }}</ref>

<ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Catalogue of Life | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/ | accessdate=2018-12-29 }}</ref>

<ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=GBIF | url=https://www.gbif.org/ | accessdate=2018-12-29 }}</ref>

<ref name=bugguide> {{Cite web| title=Leptysminae Subfamily Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/12751 | website=BugGuide.net | accessdate=2018-12-29 }}</ref>

<ref name=Otte2018> {{Cite web | accessdate = 2018-12-29 | title = Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0 | date = 2018 | last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Cigliano | first2 = Maria Marta | last3 = Braun | first3 = Holger | last4 = Eades | first4 = David C. | url = http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/ }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | title = The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets | date = 2003 | last1 = Bland | first1 = Roger | publisher = Michigan State University Extension | isbn = 978-1565250178 }} * {{Cite book | title = Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States | date = 2004 | last1 = Capinera | first1 = J. L | last2 = Scott | first2 = R. D. | last3 = Walker | first3 = T. J. | publisher = Cornell University Press | isbn = 978-0-8014-8948-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetogras0000capi }} * {{Cite book | title = Orthoptera | date = 1997 | last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel | editor-last1 = Poole | editor-first1 = Robert W. | editor-last2 = Gentili | editor-first2 = Patricia | publisher = Entomological Information Services | series = Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America | volume = 4: Non–Holometabolous Orders | pages = 581–634 | isbn = 978-1-889002-04-0 | url = http://nearctica.com/nomina/pdfs/volume4/volume4.htm | archive-date = 2019-11-29 | access-date = 2018-05-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191129051436/http://nearctica.com/nomina/pdfs/volume4/volume4.htm | url-status = dead }} {{refend}}

==External links== {{refbegin}} * {{Commons category-inline|Leptysminae}} {{refend}}

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