Hylophorbus rufescens Macleay, 1878
Hylophorbus rufescens Macleay, 1878, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 2: 136. Holotype: AMS R30826, according to Cogger, 1979, Rec. Aust. Mus., 32: 179; Fry, 1913, Mem. Queensland Mus., 11: 47, reported the type as being in the QM. Type locality: "Katow" (=Mawatta), near Daru, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
Metopostira ocellata Méhely, 1901, Termés. Füzetek, 24: 190, 239. Syntypes: MNH (destroyed according to Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 449) and NHMW 19829 (3 specimens) (according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 25, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 29), and MZUT An505 (1 specimen) (according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 113). Type locality: "Sattelbergen" [sic, p 190) and "Sattleberg" (p. 239), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Metopostira macra Van Kampen, 1906, Nova Guinea, 5: 167. Holotype: RMNH 4631, according to Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 449; holotype is ZMA and lost according to Van Tuijl, 1995, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 14: 128. Type locality: "Am Moso und Tami", (= Mosso River), Papua New Guinea. Synonymy (with Metopstira ocellata) by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 69. Synonymy with Hylophorbus rufescens) by Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 427.
Hylophorbus ocellatus — Van Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 54.
Phrynomantis ocellatus — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 20. by implication.
Phrynomantis rufescens — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 20. by implication.
Asterophrys rufescens — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 62. Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 416.
Hylophorbus rufescens rufescens — Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 449.
Hylophorbus rufescens extimus Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 454. Holotype: AMNH 60093, by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Riu, Sudest Island, Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay District, Territory of Paua [Papua New Guinea]".
Hylophorbus rufescens myopicus Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 455. Holotype: AMNH 59979, by original designation. Type locality: "Kulumadau, Woodlark Island, Milne Bay District, Territory of Papua [Papua New Guinea]".
English Names
Red Mawatta Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).
Distribution
New Guinea and nearby islands.
Comment
Zweifel, 1972, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 148: 411-546, recognized three subspecies, two of them insular. See brief accounts by Menzies, 1976, Handb. Common New Guinea Frogs: 50, and Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 251.
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