Hypsiboas semilineatus (Spix, 1824) FAIVOVICH & HADDAD & GARCIA & FROST & CAMPBELL & WHEELER, 2005

FAIVOVICH, JULIÁN, HADDAD, CÉLIO F. B., GARCIA, PAULO C. A., FROST, DARREL R., CAMPBELL, JONATHAN A. & WHEELER, WARD C., 2005, Systematic Review Of The Frog Family Hylidae, With Special Reference To Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis And Taxonomic Revision, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (294), pp. 1-240 : 88-89

Hypsiboas semilineatus Group

DIAGNOSIS: This species group is diagnosed by 128 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial protein and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. A possible morphological synapomorphy of this species group is the presence of a reticulated palpebral membrane (with instances of homoplasy in other species of Hypsiboas : H. hutchinsi and H. microderma ).

COMMENTS: We include in this group the fragments of the former Hyla boans and H. geographica groups that form a monophyletic group. We prefer to call it the Hypsiboas semilineatus group because the use of either the H. boans or H. geographicus groups would only cause confusion regarding its contents. The inclusion of Hyla wavrini is based on the combination of the same reproductive mode of H. boans (eggs deposited in a basin built by the male) and a reticulated palpebral membrane (Hoogmoed, 1990). Hyla pombali is tentatively included based on comments by Caramaschi et al (2004a) stressing its similarities with H. semilineata , but with the caveat that it lacks the reticulated palpebral membrane. Schooling behavior has been reported for tadpoles of H. geo­ graphica (Caldwell, 1989) and H. semilineata (D’Heursel and Haddad, 2002) , and this may be a synapomorphy for at least these two species.

CONTENTS: Six species. Hypsiboas boans (Linnaeus, 1758) , new comb.; Hypsiboas geographicus (Spix, 1824) , new comb.; Hypsiboas pombali (Caramaschi, Silva, and Feio, 2004) ; Hypsiboas semilineatus (Spix, 1824) , new comb.; Hypsiboas wavrini (Parker, 1936) , new comb.

Species of Hypsiboas Unassigned to Group

There are two species of Hypsiboas that we do not assign to any group because we do not have evidence favoring a relationship with any of the species groups that we are recognizing for the genus. These species are Hypsiboas fuentei (Goin and Goin, 1968) , new comb., and Hypsiboas varelae (Carrizo, 1992) , new comb.