From the IUCN Red List Species Account:

Range Description

This species is currently known only from the Southern Highlands Province in Papua New Guinea. All records so far have been from streams near Moro Camp (6°21.833’S, 143°13.481’E) at 800m asl, and the Benaria River (6°03.287’S and 142°58.707’E) at 1,345m asl, both of these sites being within the Kikori Integrated Conservation and Development Project Area. It is expected to occur more widely.

Habitat and Ecology

Male specimens have been encountered in riparian rainforest, where they called from branches 3-10m above ground, overhanging torrential streams. It is assumed to breed in streams by larval development.

Population

Many frogs were heard at its only known sites.

Population Trend

unknown

Major Threats

There is no information on threats to this species.

Conservation Actions

It occurs in the Kikori Integrated Conservation and Development Project Area, where its habitat is conserved. Further studies are needed into the distribution, abundance, threats and general ecology of the species.

Red List Status

Data Deficient (DD)

Rationale

Listed as Data Deficient since it has only recently been described, and there is still very little known about its extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, status and ecological requirements.

Citation

Stephen Richards 2008. Litoria spartacus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T135896A4217781. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135896A4217781.en .Downloaded on 19 February 2019