Phyllomedusa venusta Duellman and Trueb, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 128. Holotype: KU 96150, by original designation. Type locality: "1 km west-southwest of the junction of the Río Mono and the Río Tuira, Darién Province, Panamá, elevation 130 m".
Lovely Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).
Forests of Darién on both sides of the Panama-Colombia border and 800-1200 m elevation in the central Magdalena valley of Colombia and into western Venezuela in the state of Zulia.
See account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 135-138, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 848. Not assigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 117-118. Infante-Rivero, Barrio-Amorós, and Rojas-Runjaic, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 101, provided the Venezuelan record. In the Phyllomedusa tarsius group of Barrio-Amorós, 2006, Zootaxa, 1309: 55-68.
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