Ameerega flavopicta (Lutz, 1925)
Hylaplesia flavopicta Lutz, 1925, C. R. Mém. Hebd. Séances Soc. Biol. Filial., Paris, 93 (1925, vol. 2): 139. Syntypes: Not stated; by museum records AL-MNRJ 853-854 and USNM 96986, according to XXX; implied lectotype designation by Lutz, 1952, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 50: 597. Type locality: "Bello Horizonte", Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Dendrobates pictus flavopictus — Lutz, 1952, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 50: 597.
Dendrobates flavopictus — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 8.
Epipedobates flavopictus — Myers, 1987, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 36: 303.
Ameerega flavopicta — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 130. by implication; Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 164.
English Names
Yellow-spotted Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 86).
Lutz's Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 25; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Yellow-painted Poison-arrow Frog (Eterovick and Sazima, 2004, Anf. Serra do Cipó: 37).
Distribution
Southeastern (Minas Gerais, Goiás, north-eastern São Paulo, and Tocantíns), northern (Pará), and northeastern (Maranhão), Brazil.
Comment
See account (as Epipedobates flavopictus) by Haddad and Martins, 1994, Herpetologica, 50: 282-295, and (as Ameerega flavopicta) by Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 333-335, who placed this in their Ameerega picta group, and who noted a population of this species, or a closely related one, in Bolivia (now Ameerega boehmei). Eterovick and Sazima, 2004, Anf. Serra do Cipó: 37-38, provided a photograph and brief account (as Epipedobates flavopictus). Lötters, Schmitz, Reichle, Rödder, and Quennet, 2009, Zootaxa, 2028: 22, provided a distribution map. Martins and Giaretta, 2012, Check List, 8: 502-504, provided the São Paulo, Brazil, record and commented on the range.
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