Osteocephalus mimeticus (Melin, 1941)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Osteocephalus > Species: Osteocephalus mimeticus

Hyla mimetica Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 24. Syntypes: NHMG 469 (2 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 107; the one corresponding to Fig. 10a in the original publication was designated lectotype by Jungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39. Type locality: "Roque, [San Martín Department,] Peru".

Hyla elkejungigerae Henle, 1981, Amphibia-Reptilia, 2: 123. Holotype: ZFMK 33352, by original designation. Type locality: "Peru: El Boqueron, ca. 1000 m NN". Synonymy by Jungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39.

Osteocephalus elkejungingeraeHenle, 1992, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 43: 112.

Osteocephalus mimeticusJungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39.

English Names

Henle's Slender-legged Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Andean foothills from about 260 to 1650 m elevation from the Huancabamba Depression southward from Departamento San Martín, Peru, at least to Departamento Cuzco, Peru (see comment); also reported from Pilon Lajas, Departamento Beni, Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Peru

Comment

See account by Jungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39-41, who removed Hyla mimetica from the synonymy of Dendropsophus triangulum, where it had been placed by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 19. In the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group of Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 351–380. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 178–179. Venegas, García Ayachi, Toral, Malqui, and Ron, 2023, Evol. Syst., 7: 237–251, provided molecular evidence that this nominal species is a complex, with the Cusco region harboring an unnamed lineage which is the sister taxon of Osteocephalus mimeticus sensu stricto + Osteocephalus vasquezi

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