Hyperolius variabilis Ahl, 1931a: 39.

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 variabilis Ahl, 1931a: 39.

Holotype.

ZMB 36122, “Bukoba” [Bukoba Urban District, Kagera Region, Tanzania], coll. Johann Gustav Hermann Schubotz, 15.VI.1907.

Paratypes.

ZMB 77802-77813 (formerly part of ZMB 36122), “Bukoba”, coll. Schubotz, 17.VI.1907; ZMB 36116, "Mohasi See", coll. Schubotz; ZMB 46518-46519, “NW-Buddu-Wald” [Minziro Forest, NW of Bukoba, Missenyi District, Kagera Region, Tanzania], coll. Schubotz, VI/1907; ZMB 46521, "Insel Kwidjwi (Kivu See)" [Idjwi (Ijwi) Island, Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo], coll. Schubotz; ZMB 47210, "Sisse [sic], W-Niansa" [Sesse or Ssese Archipelago, Lake Victoria, Uganda], coll. Stuhlmann; ZMB 78564, “Udjidji” [Ujiji, Kigoma Province, Tanzania], coll. Dr. Hösemann; ZMB 85831, “Kagera-Ufer” [Tanzania], coll. Stuhlmann; ZMB 85879-85881, “Bukoba”, coll. Dr. Eggel; ZMB 85882, “Mpororo” [Region in southern Nyagatare District, Eastern Province, Rwanda], coll. Schubotz; ZMB 85890-85892 and ZMb 91000-91002, “Bukoba”, coll. Stuhlmann.

Present name.

Hyperolius viridiflavus ( Duméril & Bibron, 1841).

Remarks.

Ahl (1931a: 40) mentioned a series of 47 specimens from “Bukoba” including the “Type”. We failed to locate 23 of these specimens. He also lists 11 additional specimens that we could not locate, as well as a second specimen from "Mohasi See", coll. Schubotz and two specimens without locality or collector information. Drawings of seven specimens showing the variation of this taxon are published by Ahl (1931b: 298, fig. 173). These have been copied from Tornier (1896, pl. 4, specimen no. 26-28 and 30-33). Another two paratypes, MCZ A-17648 and 17626, from “Bukoba” collected during the first "Deutsche Zentral-Afrika-Expedition", 1907-1908 were sent in exchange to MCZ in 1932 ( Barbour and Loveridge 1946: 129).