Phrynopus ayacucho Lehr, 2007, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 159: 164. Holotype: MCZ 153057, by original designation. Type locality: "Rapi, Provincia de la Mar, Departamento de Ayacucho, Peru".
Oreobates ayacucho — Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012, Am. Mus. Novit., 3752: 27.
None noted.
Known only from the type locality (Cordillera de Vilcabamba, Provincia de Satipo, Departamento de Junín, Peru, at over 3000 m elevation).
See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 105-106, for brief account. Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012, Am. Mus. Novit., 3752: 27-29, provided information on habitat and life history as well as assignment on the basis of molecular data to Oreobates.
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