Allobates femoralis (Boulenger 1884)

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 33-34

Allobates femoralis (Boulenger 1884)

Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.14.21–22 ; Lectotype designated by Silverstone 1976: BMNH 1947.2.14. 21 (sensu Frost 2017) .

Type locality: “Yurimaguas, Huallaga River, (Departamento Loreto), Northern Peru.”

Distribution: Widely distributed in the Amazonian Region ( Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana). In Venezuela, only known from two localities in the extreme east of Bolívar State.

Remarks: Allobates femoralis was reported for Venezuela by Duellman (1997) based on one specimen (KU 167335), which was confused with Ameerega picta (see explanation in Barrio-Amorós 2004 and Barrio-Amorós and Santos 2009). Nevertheless, its presence in the country was shown by Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2009) using two different recorded calls; voucher specimens from Venezuela are still lacking.

Selected references: Duellman (1997); Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2009).