Hyperolius scheffleri Ahl, 1931a: 111.

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 scheffleri Ahl, 1931a: 111.

Holotype.

ZMB 85759, "Kibwezi, Britisch-Ost-Afrika" [Kibwezi Division, Makueni County, Kenya], coll. Georg Richard Otto Scheffler, 28.-29.XII.1905.

Present name.

Hyperolius glandicolor Peters, 1878.

Remarks.

Scheffler worked from 1899 to 1900 as a horticulturist on plantations of the German East African Society in Usambara (Nguelo and Derema), in the Useguha region [Tanzania] and from 1905 until his death on 10.VI.1911 as a farm manager under managing director Paul Huebner in Kibwezi, British East Africa ( Urban 1917; Sieberg 1998).