Abstract
The genus Scinax is currently the most specious genus of Hylidae. It contains 126 species divided into two large clades: the S. ruber clade and the S. catharinae clade. The S. ruber clade species were recovered in eight species groups in the most inclusive phylogenetic study of Scinax (Araujo-Vieira et al. in prep.); one of these groups is the Scinax auratus group, composed of eight descr…