Hyperolius laticeps Ahl, 1931a: 69.

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 laticeps Ahl, 1931a: 69.

Holotype.

ZMB 46529, “Togo”, coll. Leopold Fritz Wilhelm Edmund Conradt, 17.XII.1892.

Present name.

Hyperolius laticeps Ahl, 1931a.

Remarks.

Depicted in Ahl (1931b: 342, fig. 216). Conradt was a German planter and colonial officer, who was working in “Derema” [Derema, Usambara Mountains, Korogwe District, Tanga Region, Tanzania] at the end of 1891. His collections of vertebrates made during this time were described by Matschie (1892). Later he went to Togo, being stationed in Bismarckburg [Sotouboua Prefecture, Centrale Region, Togo] from VII/1892-XII/1893 ( Weidmann 1894; Conradt 1896). See also remarks on Megalixalus laevis concerning his activities in Tanzania and Cameroon.

The specimen is a juvenile Hyperolius and cannot be assigned confidently to a particular West African species.