Pristimantis lacrimosus species group

Carrion-Olmedo, Julio C. & Ron, Santiago R., 2021, A new cryptic species of the Pristimantis lacrimosus group (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes, Evolutionary Systematics 5, pp. 151-175 : 151

Pristimantis lacrimosus species group

Content.

We include all the descendants from the most recent common ancestor of P. eremitus and P. lacrimosus according to Ron et al. 2020. We exclude Pristimantis eugeniae from this group because it belongs to the sister clade of P. lacrimosus species group. We also include P. degener which is sister to P. subsigillatus and the new species.

According to our findings and those of Ron et al. 2020, the Pristimantis lacrimosus group comprises 39 species (species included in the phylogeny are marked with an asterisk): * P. acuminatus (Shreve, 1935), * P. amaguanae Ron, Carrión, Caminer, Sagredo, Navarrete, Ortega, Varela-Jaramillo, Maldonado-Castro & Terán, 2020, * P. aureolineatus (Guayasamin, Ron, Cisneros-Heredia, Lamar & McCracken, 2006), * P. bromeliaceus (Lynch, 1979), P. calima Ospina-Sarria & Duellman, 2019, * P. crucifer (Boulenger, 1899), * P. degener (Lynch & Duellman, 1997), P. deyi Lehr, Gregory & Catenazzi, 2013, * P. ecuadorensis Guayasamin, Hutter, Tapia, Culebras, Peñafiel, Pyron, Morochz, Funk & Arteaga-Navarro, 2017, * P. enigmaticus Ortega-Andrade, Rojas-Soto, Valencia, Espinosa de los Monteros, Morrone, Ron & Cannatella, 2015, * P. eremitus (Lynch, 1980), * P. galdi Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, * P. lacrimosus ( Jiménez de la Espada, 1875), P. latericius Batallas & Brito, 2014, * P. limoncochensis Ortega-Andrade, Rojas-Soto, Valencia, Espinosa de los Monteros, Morrone, Ron & Cannatella, 2015, * P. mendax (Duellman, 1978), * P. mindo Arteaga, Yanez-Munoz & Guayasamin, 2013, * P. moro (Savage, 1965), * P. nankints Ron, Carrión, Caminer, Sagredo, Navarrete, Ortega, Varela-Jaramillo, Maldonado-Castro & Terán, 2020, * P. nyctophylax (Lynch ,1976), * P. olivaceus ( Köhler, Morales, Lötters, Reichle & Aparicio, 1998), * P. omeviridis Ortega-Andrade, Rojas-Soto, Valencia, Espinosa de los Monteros, Morrone, Ron & Cannatella, 2015, * P. ornatissimus (Despax, 1911), P. padiali Moravec, Lehr, Pérez-Peña, López, Gagliardi-Urrutia & Arista-Tuanama, 2010, P. pardalinus (Lehr, Lundberg, Aguilar and von May, 2006), * P. petersi (Lynch & Duellman, 1980), * P. petersioides sp. nov. (herein), * P. pluvialis Shepack, von May, Ttito, & Catenazzi, 2016, P. pseudoacuminatus (Shreve, 1935), * P. romeroae Ron, Carrión, Caminer, Sagredo, Navarrete, Ortega, Varela-Jaramillo, Maldonado-Castro & Terán, 2020, P. royi (Morales, 2007), * P. pulchridormientes Chávez & Catenazzi, 2016, * P. schultei (Duellman, 1990), * P. subsigillatus (Boulenger, 1902), * P. tantanti (Lehr, Torres-Gastello & Suárez-Segovia, 2007), P. tayrona (Lynch & Ruiz-Carranza, 1985), P. waoranii (McCracken, Forstner & Dixon, 2007), P. zimmermanae (Heyer & Hardy, 1991), and * P. zorro Rivera-Correa & Daza 2020.

Distribution.

The Pristimantis lacrimosus group is distributed in Central America, the Guianan Shield, Pacific Basin of Ecuador, and the Amazon Basin. Its species richness peaks in the Ecuadorian Andes (n = 19) and Amazon basin of Ecuador and Peru (n = 14).

Remarks.

We refrain from assigning Pristimantis sneiderni ( Ospina-Sarria and Duellman 2019) to the Pristimantis lacrimosus group due to the lack of molecular evidence and following Ron et al. (2020).