genus

Leucopodoptera Rentz & Webber, 2003

Type

type species by original designation of Leucopodoptera Rentz & Webber, 2003

Leucopodoptera Rentz & Webber, 2003 in Webber, Rentz, Ueshima & Woodrow, 2003: 80.
type species by original designation Leucopodoptera eumundii Rentz & Webber, 2003
Leucopodoptera Rentz & Webber, 2003 (classified as Holochlorini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Rentz, 2010: 155.

Leucopodoptera Rentz & Webber, 2003 in Liu, 2011: 36.
Leucopodoptera Rentz & Webber, 2003 (classified as Ephippitythini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878) in Fianco & Melo, 2026

Fianco, M. & Melo, G.A.R. (2026) Evolution of the false‐leaf katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae): Molecular phylogeny and divergence times. Systematic Entomology, 51(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.70064
Liu, C. (2011) Brief summary of Holochlorini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae), with description of seven new species from China. Zootaxa, 2931, 35–52.

Rentz, D.C.F. (2010) A Guide to the Katydids of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 214 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=Gd8CM_wn7pMC
Webber, B.L., Rentz, D.C.F., Ueshima, N. & Woodrow, I.E. (2003) Leucopodoptera eumundii, a new genus and species of katydid from the tropical rainforests of North Queensland, Australia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Holochlorini). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 12(1), 79–88. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282003%29012%5B0079%3ALEANGA%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

The name refers to the uniformly white tarsi.