Isthmohyla lancasteri (Barbour, 1928)
Hyla lancasteri Barbour, 1928, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 31. Holotype: MCZ 13062, by original designation. Type locality: "high forest at Peralta, [Cantón de Turrialba, Provincia Cartago,] Costa Rica, altitude 500 meters". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 101, commented on the type locality.
Hyla moraviaensis Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 865. Holotype: KU 30284, by original designation. Type locality: "Moravia, [Cantón de Turrialba, Cartago Province,] Costa Rica (Caribbean drainage)". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 98, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 271.
Isthmohyla lancasteri — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 103.
English Names
Lancaster's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Distribution
Humid premontane slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica and western Panama, 368-1200 m elevation.
Comment
See Myers and Duellman, 1982, Am. Mus. Novit., 2752: 15, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 878-879, who provided an account and transferred the former Hyla lancasteri group into the Hyla pictipes group. See comment under Hyla calypsa with which this was formerly confused. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 311-312. In the Isthmohyla pictipes group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 103.
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