Afrixalus wittei (Laurent, 1941)

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

Afrixalus wittei (Laurent, 1941)

Specimen.

Angola: Duque de Bragança : BMNH 1864.10.28.10 .

Comments.

Bocage (1866 a) recorded a single specimen of Hyperolius fulvovittatus from Duque de Bragança, later reported as Rappia fulvovittata ( Bocage 1895 a) . Perret (1976) located the specimen in the Lisbon Museum and identified it as Afrixalus wittei . Although not mentioned by Bocage (1866 a, 1895 a), he had presented another specimen from Duque de Bragança to the British Museum in 1864 ( AHMB /CE/G76 ), which was identified and cited as Rappia fulvovittata by Günther (1868 b) and Boulenger (1882 b). Since the specimen in the Lisbon Museum was destroyed by fire, BMNH 1864.10.28.10 is one of only two specimens of Afrixalus wittei known from Angola ( Ceríaco et al. 2018).