Feihyla vittiger ( Boulenger, 1897 ) Biju & Garg & Gokulakrishnan & Chandrakasan & Thammachoti & Ren & Gopika & Bisht & Hamidy & Shouche, 2020

Biju, S. D., Garg, Sonali, Gokulakrishnan, G., Chandrakasan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Panupong, Ren, Jinlong, Gopika, C., Bisht, Karan, Hamidy, Amir & Shouche, Yogesh, 2020, New insights on the systematics and reproductive behaviour in tree frogs of the genus Feihyla, with description of a new related genus from Asia (Anura, Rhacophoridae), Zootaxa 4878 (1), pp. 1-55 : 27

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.1.1
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scientific name	Feihyla vittiger ( Boulenger, 1897 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Feihyla vittiger ( Boulenger, 1897) comb. nov.

Javan Jelly-nest Frog

( Figs. 1–2 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 , 4 View FIGURE 4 , 6 View FIGURE 6 ; Tables 1–2 View TABLE 1 View TABLE 2 )

Original name and description. Ixalus vittiger Boulenger, 1897 . Boulenger G.A. 1897. Descriptions of new Malay frogs. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 19: 106–108. Type. Holotype, BMNH 1947.2.7.58. Type locality. “Pengalengan”, West Java, Indonesia. Current status of specific name. Valid name as Feihyla vittiger ( Boulenger, 1897) comb. nov.

Taxonomic remarks. This species is morphologically close to Feihyla inexpectata and the same is also confirmed phylogenetically based on the new sequence data included in our study ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ). Furthermore, its reproductive mode (eggs deposited in jelly nests) ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ) is possibly also a phenotypic synapomorphy for the genus Feihyla ( Li et al. 2009; Hertwig et al. 2013; present study). Hence, we propose that Chiromantis vittiger ( Boulenger, 1897) be transferred to genus Feihyla .

Diagnosis. Small to medium-sized adults (male SVL 24–27 mm, female SVL 23–26 mm) with a slender body; snout rounded to truncate in dorsal view, and truncate in lateral view; dorsal skin shagreened to sparsely granular, with or without scattered spinules; dorsal colouration variable, ranging from light lemon yellow to light or dark brown, with or without a reddish tinge; dorsum with or without contrasting dark spots and minute speckles, even within the same population; upper arm, loreal, canthal and tympanic regions, lateral surfaces of abdomen, and anterior and posterior parts of thigh, non-pigmented (flesh coloured); a white streak starting from the snout tip and extending along the lateral surfaces up to the groin, separates the dorsal and lateral body colouration; the first two fingers opposed to the others; foot webbing moderate, up to the second tubercle on either side of toe IV.

Genetic divergence. Phylogenetically, F. vittiger is closely related to members of the Feihyla vittiger group ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ). For the 16S mitochondrial gene, it differs by average uncorrected genetic distances of: 9.5–9.9% from F. inexpectata and 12.6–12.8% from F. kajau . For interspecific genetic distances with other congeners, see Table 2 View TABLE 2 .

Distribution. Feihyla vittiger is currently known only from the Indonesian island of Java: Bogor, Pengalengan, and Mount Halimun-Salak National Park in West Java, and Banwumas in Central Java.