Chiromantis Peters, 1854

The only species of this genus, C. rufescens, is known from Central Africa. However, a recent phylogeographic study has shown that the north-central and eastern Congolian population is relatively divergent (the estimated origin is dated to the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary) and may represent a distinct species (Leaché et al. 2019). Representatives of this genus deposit eggs into foam nests attached usually to branches above water (Channing and Rödel 2019). The foam is produced from a secretion during oviposition by beating the secretion by both females and males, sometimes including multiple males.