Hyperolius ademetzi Ahl, 1931a: 37.

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 ademetzi Ahl, 1931a: 37.

Lectotype.

ZMB 20794, “Bamenda” [Mezam Department, Northwest Region, Cameroon], coll. First Lieutenant Karl Moritz Ernst Gustav Wilhelm Adametz, VI/1909.

Paralectotypes.

ZMB 77729-77733 and ZMB 77749, same collecting data as for the lectotype.

Present name.

Hyperolius ademetzi Ahl, 1931a.

Remarks.

Drawing in Ahl (1931b: 296, fig. 171). Originally eight specimens according to the original publication. Lectotype designation by Perret (1962: 244, fig. 2) who provided a photograph of the lectotype. Another paralectotype MCZ A-17626 was sent in exchange from ZMB in 1932 ( Barbour and Loveridge 1946: 126). Adametz was a first lieutenant in the German `Schutztruppe’ for Cameroon and head of the colonial station in Bamenda. He was involved in surveying the Hinterland of the Kamerun-Nordbahn in the Bamenda region. In summer 1912, he also took part in an operation against the Baminge (Bamije-Expedition) at the eastern frontier of the present day Manyu Division, Southwest Region, Cameroon ( Nkwi 1989; Hoffmann 2007; Hafeneder 2008).