Allobates femoralis Zimmermann & Zimmerman, 1988

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Allobates femoralis Zimmermann & Zimmerman, 1988

Material examined. MUSA 4925–6; (13°25′20″S, 069° 36′36″W), 22.IX.2013.

Identification. A small frog, SVL 20–33.5 mm in males and 20.5–33.5 mm in females. It can be identified by

dark brown dorsum with conspicuous dorsolateral and ventrolateral white stripes; throat and chest black; venter bluish white with black blotches. A yellow or orange spot extends from the inguinal region to the dorsal thigh region, and another on the proximal dorsal surface of the arms. Dorsal surfaces of digital discs bear a pair of scutes. Similar species in adjacent localities, Ameerega hahneli and Lythodytes lineatus , differ by lacking a ventrolateral white stripe, venter is blue with black reticulation and uniformly gray respectively. Furthermore, L. lineatus lacks scutes on the dorsal surfaces of discs ( Duellman 1978, 2005, Rodriguez and Duellman 1994).

Distribution. Allobates femoralis is a pan-Amazonian frog widely distributed throughout primary, non-flooded forest areas in the Amazonian forest in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela (de la Riva et al. 2000, Barrio- Amorós and Santos 2010, Simões et al. 2010, Frost 2019).