Phyllonastes is a genus of frogs in the family Craugastoridae.

Taxonomy

Phyllonastes was relegated to a junior synonym of Noblella in 2008. However, this resulted in polyphyly within Noblella, and the genus was resurrected in 2024.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Phyllonastes as of July 2026:

• Phyllonastes arutam (Brito-Zapata, Chávez-Reyes, Pallo-Robles, Carrión-Olmedo, Cisneros-Heredia, and Reyes-Puig, 2024)

• Phyllonastes cerrogolondrinas Ortega, Cisneros-Heredia, Camper, Romero-Carvajal, Negrete, and Ron, 2025

• Phyllonastes coloma (Guayasamin and Terán-Valdez, 2009)

• Phyllonastes dicaprioi Ortega et al., 2025

• Phyllonastes ecuadoriensis Ortega et al., 2025

• Phyllonastes heyeri Lynch, 1986

• Phyllonastes lochites (Lynch, 1976)

• Phyllonastes lynchi Duellman, 1991

• Phyllonastes macuma Ortega et al., 2025

• Phyllonastes mindo (Reyes-Puig, Guayasamin, Koch, Brito-Zapata, Hollanders, Costales, and Cisneros-Heredia, 2021)

• Phyllonastes myrmecoides (Lynch, 1976)

• Phyllonastes naturetrekii (Reyes-Puig, Reyes-Puig, Ron, Ortega, Guayasamin, Goodrum, Recalde, Vieira, Koch, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2019)

• Phyllonastes personinus (Harvey, Almendáriz, Brito-M., and Batallas-R., 2013)

• Phyllonastes plateadensis Ortega et al., 2025

• Phyllonastes sardinayacu Ortega et al., 2025

• Phyllonastes worleyae (Reyes-Puig, Maynard, Trageser, Vieira, Hamilton, Lynch, Culebras, Kohn, Brito, and Guayasamin, 2020)

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