Diasporus citrinobapheus

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Four copies of Diasporus citrinobapheus of four different sites

Diasporus citrinobapheus, or yellow Dyer's rain frog is a frog that was discovered in the Central American central Cordillera of western Panama. It was first described in 2012. The name is derived from the Greek citrinobapheus citrinos citrine - yellow and bapheus color. The name indicates that the yellow body color rubs off when you touch the frog.

Features

The males of Diasporus citrinobapheus reach a snout-vent length from 17.3 to 19.7 mm, the only measured females was 21.8 mm long. All study specimens showed dorsal shades of bright yellow and orange, some with dark gray and / or whitish - grayish stains. Ventral type is transparent, almost colorless to yellow on the skin over the single -throated vocal sac of the male.

Dissemination

Diasporus citrinobapheus was on the Caribbean slopes of the western Serranía de Tabasara and on both the Pacific and Caribbean, gathered slopes of the eastern Serranía de Tabasara at medium altitude 680-790 m.

The life and habitat

The males call, hard to see from very dense vegetation. Your Rufaktiviät is highest at dusk and ends when it is night. During the calls they sit on the ground up in three meters high, at the top or the underside of a leaf. The single female specimen was in the day, around 15:00 clock, in a still rolled, young banana leaf, which apparently served as a day hiding place. The species seems at home not only in old forests but also in secondary forest and plantations. Open habitats such as grasslands, they seem to avoid.