Andinobates minutus (Shreve, 1935) Brown & Twomey & Amézquita & Souza & Caldwell & Lötters & May & Melo-Sampaio & Mejía-Vargas & Perez-Peña & Pepper & Poelman & Sanchez-Rodriguez & Summers, 2011

Brown, Jason L., Twomey, Evan, Amézquita, Adolfo, Souza, Moisés Barbosa De, Caldwell, Jana- Lee P., Lötters, Stefan, May, Rudolf Von, Melo-Sampaio, Paulo Roberto, Mejía-Vargas, Daniel, Perez-Peña, Pedro, Pepper, Mark, Poelman, Erik H., Sanchez-Rodriguez, Manuel & Summers, Kyle, 2011, A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae) 3083, Zootaxa 3083 (1), pp. 1-120 : 30

Andinobates minutus species group

Figs. 3 – 5 (a – m), 8

Tables 4 –6

A monophyletic assemblage of two divergent species: Andinobates minutus ( Shreve 1935) comb. nov. and A. claudiae ( Jungfer, Lötters & Jörgens 2000) comb. nov.

Definition and diagnosis. SVL 13–16 mm; dark brown or black dorsum; largely complete light colored dorsolateral stripes not extending to thigh and oblique lateral stripes present, typically incomplete and not extending to eye; large spots near body on upper surface of legs and forearms; limbs and venter black with pale marbling on venter; LTRF either 2(2)/3(1) ( A. claudiae ) or 2(2)/3 ( A. minutus ); larvae with complete papillae on posterior labium and wide gap in papillae on anterior labium; oral disc emarginated ( Table 4); larvae gray; eggs dark (Table 6). Vocalizations short, tonal buzz-notes, notes less than 1 sec in length, repeated at 3 – 17 notes per minute ( Fig. 8, Table 5).