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Leptopternis
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Leptopternis

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).

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Leptopternis gracilis

speciesLeptopternis gracilis

Leptopternis maculata

speciesLeptopternis maculata

Leptopternis rothschildi

speciesLeptopternis rothschildi

Leptopternis vosseleri

speciesLeptopternis vosseleri

Leptopternis iliensis

speciesLeptopternis iliensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 753231.