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The Shensi treefrog, Hyla tsinlingensis, is a small tree frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to China. Its confirmed range sits in the Qinling-Dabie mountain system: Shaanxi Province, including Ningshan county, and, as an apparently isolated population, Anhui Province at Yaoluoping in the Huangshan mountain area. Despite that narrow range, Wikidata records the species across 18 language editions of Wikipedia, a reach well beyond what its coverage in open sources otherwise suggests.
Identification
The species’ size, colouring and other diagnostic features go undescribed in the sources open to this profile. The English Wikipedia entry for H. tsinlingensis is a short stub, and AmphibiaWeb and the IUCN Red List, which would normally carry a fuller diagnosis, both answered with a bot challenge instead of a page this profile could open. Rather than guess from related Hyla species, this profile leaves identification unfilled and reports only what the open sources state.
Habitat and range
Within its Qinling-Dabie range, H. tsinlingensis uses temperate shrubland, rivers and intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes and intermittent freshwater marshes, and irrigated land — a spread that puts it among the Hyla tree frogs tolerant of farmed and seasonally wet ground rather than confined to permanent forest streams. A molecular study of the Hyla chinensis group found that frogs once classified as the subspecies Hyla annectans chuanxiensis in fact belong to H. tsinlingensis rather than to H. annectans, a taxonomic correction that folded material previously assigned elsewhere into this species’ known range.
Behaviour and breeding
The species’ advertisement call, breeding season, amplexus, egg-laying sites and tadpole development are absent from every source open to this profile. That gap matches the stub-length Wikipedia coverage and the lack of an open-access account of the species’ biology beyond its distribution and habitat, so it stays unfilled rather than assumed from related tree frogs.
Conservation
The facts box above carries the species’ current IUCN category, Least Concern, drawn from its Wikidata record. No source checked for this profile sets out specific threats to H. tsinlingensis, though its use of irrigated land and intermittent marshes alongside natural habitat suggests some tolerance of agricultural land use within its Qinling-Dabie range. Because the Anhui population at Yaoluoping appears isolated from the main Shaanxi range, its conservation outlook may depend more on local habitat conditions there than on trends across the species’ range as a whole, though no source here breaks the assessment down by locality.
Similar species
The taxonomic history of H. tsinlingensis ties it closely to two relatives. Material once labelled the subspecies Hyla annectans chuanxiensis was reassigned to H. tsinlingensis rather than to Hyla annectans, Jerdon’s tree frog, by the same molecular study behind the distribution facts above, so specimens from within H. tsinlingensis’s Qinling-Dabie range should not be identified as H. annectans on the strength of that old subspecies name alone. The species also belongs to the Hyla chinensis group studied in that paper alongside Hyla chinensis itself, a separate species confirmed from southeastern and eastern China and Taiwan, well outside the Qinling-Dabie system; the two are not known to overlap in range.