Hyperolius ipianae Ahl, 1931a: 43.

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 ipianae Ahl, 1931a: 43.

Holotype.

ZMB 36091, “Ipiana” [Ipyana (Ipanya) on Kiwira River, at the northwestern tip of Lake Malawi, Kyela District, South Mbeya Region, Tanzania], coll. Adolf Ferdinand Stolz.

Present name.

Hyperolius kivuensis Ahl, 1931a.

Remarks.

Drawing in Ahl (1931b: 301, fig. 175). Stolz was a mission trader and planter, working as head of the missionary station of the Moravian Church (Herrnhuter Brüdergemeinde) at Ipyana from 1898 to1903. Afterwards, and until 1914, he collected botanical and zoological objects in Kiymbila and Rungwe ( Urban 1917; Jones et al. 2000). Amphibians and reptiles from his collection arrived at ZMB on 8 June 1901.