| Discovery | Myers and Daly, 1976, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 157: 244. |
| Type locality | "La Brea, 50 meters elevation, on the Río Patia (=upper tributary Río Saija), at an estimated 15 km by river below mouth of Quebrada Guanguí, Department of Cauca, Colombia". |
| Holotype | The holotype: AMNH 88143 is to be found in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. |
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| Classification | Placed by Myers in the Dendrobates histrionicus group. |
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| Physical description | Size: 25-27mm |
| Distribution | Western slope of the western Andes in Cauca, Colombia, 50-200 m elevation. |
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| Care and breeding | They can be kept at a temperature of 25-27°C. |
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