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Allobates insperatus (Morales, 2002)
Colostethus insperatus Morales, 2002 "2000", Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 13: 32. Holotype: KU 146206, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Cecilia, 340 msnm, Napo, Ecuador".
Allobates insperatus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.
Common Names
Unexpected Nurse Frog (Jaramillo-Martinez, Vilà, Guayasamin, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, Simões, Chaparro, Aguilar-Manihuari, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2025, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 471: 20).
Rana Nodriza Inesperada (Jaramillo-Martinez, Vilà, Guayasamin, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, Simões, Chaparro, Aguilar-Manihuari, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2025, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 471: 20).
Distribution
Known from four localities in northwestern Amazonia, three within Ecuador and one in Colombia (hybrids with Allobates juami), all in terra-firme forests (222–346 m) in the headwater regions of the Napo and Putumayo rivers. See comment.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador
Comment
In the Colostethus trilineatus group, and previously confused with Colostethus marchesianus (now Allobates marchesianus), according to the original publication. Venegas and Gagliardi-Urrutia, 2013, in Pitman et al. (eds.), Rapid Biol. Social Invent. Rep. 25: 112, reported the species from Peru. Medina-Rangel, Thompson, Ruiz-Valderrama, Fajardo Muñoz, Lombana Lugo, Londoño-Guarnizo, Moquena Carbajal, Ríos Rosero, Sánchez Pamo, and Sánchez, 2019, in Pitman et al. (eds.), Bajo Caguán–Caquetá, Rapid Invent. 30: 400, noted Allobates aff. insperatus from Caquetá, Colombia. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 34–35, provided a brief account and genetic barcode for Allobates aff. insperatus from central Loreto, Peru, now apparently assigned to Allobates juami followin Jaramillo et al. (2025); Allobates liniaureum is only known from the type locality, not sampled by Gagliardi et al. (2022).
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