Hyperolius bivittatus Peters, 1854: 627.

Tillack, Frank, Ruiter, Ronald de & Roedel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, A type catalogue of the reed frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Hyperoliidae) in the collection of the Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB) with comments on historical collectors and expeditions, Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (2), pp. 407-450 : 407

Hyperolius bivittatus Peters, 1854: 627.

Syntypes.

ZMB 4529 and ZMB 52503-52509 (formerly part of ZMB 4529), “Boror” [Companhia do Boror, Zambezia Province, Mozambique], coll. Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters.

Present name.

Afrixalus fornasini (Bianconi, 1849).

Remarks.

Depicted in Peters (1882b, pl. 24, fig. 2 and pl. 26, fig. 6, sternum). Peters (1882b: 161) specified that he found this species in March 1846, often in grass and on bushes in the Prazo [estate] Boror northwest of Quellimane. Poynton and Broadley (1987: 192) incorrectly state that the description of H. bivittatus is based on a holotype.