Afrixalus fulvovittatus (Cope, 1861)

Banded Spiny Reed Frog

Material: Two females, NGK-Nimba 0066, NGK-Nimba 0067 (Fig. 8F) .

Comments: Afrixalus fulvovittatus can be easily recognized by its characteristic reddish-brown dorsal surface with three light longitudinal stripes joining on the tip of the snout. The delicate reddish-brown line in the middle of each light stripe distinguishes it from the similar looking A. vittiger (Pickersgill 2007) . This nocturnal species prefers the heavily degraded habitats of the forest zone (Schiøtz 1967; Rödel and Glos 2019). In the Yéalé village, the species was found in rice paddies and grassy swamps (07°31.928’N, 008°25.401’W; 425 m asl). The SULs of two females were 19.8–21.0 mm, thus they were below the described size for A. fulvovittatus (Schiøtz 1967) .