Genus Leptopterna Fieber, 1858

Leptopterna Fieber, 1858:302; Kerzhner, 1964 (key); Wagner, 1974:104 (key, descriptions); Vinokurov, 1982:95 (revision); Schwartz, 2008:1177 (diagnosis).

Leptopterna is a Holarctic genus comprising 16 species (Schuh, 2002 –2013), including three species recorded from Iran: L. ferrugata, L. inopinata and L. putshkovi (Aukema, 2024) .