Litoria obsoleta (Lönnberg, 1900)
Hyla obsoleta Lönnberg, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 6: 580. Holotype: ZIUU (no number), by original designation. Type locality: "Simbang", Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Nyctimystes obsoleta — Tyler, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 145: 92.
Nyctimystes obsoletus — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 108.
Litoria obsoleta — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.
English Names
Simbang Big-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea).
Comment
For discussion and redescription of the type see Tyler, 1965, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 145: 92-94 (as Nyctimystes obsoleta). Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 164, provided a brief account.
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