Teretistes Richards, Mahony & Donnellan 2025, gen. nov.

Teretistes Richards, Mahony & Donnellan, gen. nov. (Fig. 33) ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 1C8072BD-3776- 4D70-BBA2-8 ACE 4E1A3495 Type species: Litoria havina Menzies, 1993. Content: One species— Teretistes havina * (Menzies, 1993) comb. nov. Diagnosis: Teretistes can be diagnosed from other members of the Drymomantis Sub-clade by a combination of rostral spike only present in males, expanded finger and toe discs, large pigmented eggs, a Type 3 tadpole oral disc, high call dominant frequency, call frequency modulation, and triangular call envelope shape. Refer to Tables 1 and 2. Distribution and ecology: Arboreal frogs that breed in small ponds in rainforest on mainland New Guinea. Eggs are deposited on leaves above water and following development free-swimming tadpoles drop into water below (Richards 2002). Tadpoles have striking black and gold pattern (Richards 2002). Etymology: From the Greek τεΡέτισμα (teretisma, a whistling), with the masculine suffix -ῐστής (- istes, an agent, one who), alluding to the whistling call that also provides the specific epithet. Remarks: A rostral spike is present only in males. While presently conceived as a monotypic lineage, a wide geographic survey of mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in Teretistes havina indicates that it is a species complex (Richards and Donnellan, unpublished data).