Eleutherodactylus lythrodes Lynch and Lescure, 1980, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 2: 308. Holotype: MNHNP 1978.2825, by original designation. Type locality: "Colonia, Departamento Loreto, Perú".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) lythrodes — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.
Pristimantis lythrodes — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) lythrodes — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
Lescure's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).
Known only from three localities in Departamento Loreto, Peru, and also from southern Departamento de Amazonas, Colombia..
In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, most closely allied to Eleutherodactylus variabilis according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 192-193, for brief account.
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