First record of Rhacophorus verrucopus Huang, 1983 from Myanmar

We report the first country record of Rhacophorus verrucopus Huang, 1983 from Myanmar, based on one specimen twizzlers orange cream pop filled licorice twists collected from Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Sagaing Division.Morphologically, the specimen shows good agreement with the original description of R.verrucopus and aptamil allerpro phylogenetically, it is clustered with the specimen of R.

verrucopus from Medog, Tibet, China with strong support.This is also the first record of R.verrucopus from outside of China.

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