Eleutherodactylus simoteriscus Lynch, Ruiz-Carranza, and Ardila-Robayo, 1997, Caldasia, 18: errata supplement printed in 1997. Holotype: ICN 22835, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia. Departamento del Tolima. Municipio de Cajamarca, Páramo de los Valles, SW of Anaime, Anaime-Santa Helena road, 3580-3600 m alt."
Pristimantis simoteriscus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
None noted.
Known only from the páramos of the central and southern Cordillera Central of Colombia
Most similar to Eleutherodactylus simoterus according to the original publication. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus simoteriscus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 381.
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