Leptopelis oryi Inger 1968

A medium sized Leptopelis (males 29-43 mm, females 42-58 mm). Webbing much reduced. Dorsum smooth, brown with three narrow dark stripes and dark lateral bands. No pectoral glands in males.In morphology this form closely resembles Leptopelis nordequatorialis from Cameroun.This account was taken from "Treefrogs of Africa" by Arne Schiøtz with kind permission from Edition Chimaira (http://www.chimaira.de/) publishers, Frankfurt am Main.Updated by A. Schiøtz, 2008.

Collected on savanna with high grass and scattered bushes. They were not heard on the more open savannas in Uganda. Only known from north-eastern R. D. Congo and a single locality (savanna near Budongo Forest) in Uganda.

Males call from high up in the bushes and long grass. The voice is a clack with a long duration, 0.10-0.15 seconds, and a very indistinct frequency-intensity maximum at 1500 cps.Inger (1968) has described tadpoles collected at a locality where only L. oryi has been found.