Hill Cricket Frog

The long-legged cricket frog, also called the Syhadra frog or Bombay wart frog, is a small frog of India, Bangladesh and southern Nepal at low to moderate elevations, below 2,000m. Females reach 20.7 to 22.8mm from snout to vent and males are smaller, at 17.5 to 19.1mm. It is the type species of its genus (Wikipedia, general species account).

Males call in chorus but keep 0.5 to 1m apart, mainly at night, sitting in temporary shallow pools under partly submerged grass or paddy. They start calling after one or two heavy pre-monsoon or monsoon rains in April to June and continue to the end of the rains in September or October. Calls are antiphonal between the two nearest males, made with a single external vocal sac.