Rare. Background color shades of brown (rarely dominated by greens) and always spotted like a leopard. Spots round and random. Dark spot on snout. Light spot on tympanum. Distinct light line on upper lip. Dark bars on back legs. Dorsolateral folds broken near groin. Inside thigh yellowish. Call a series of 2-3 throaty gulps. 
Species of Greatest Conservation Need Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 2 records from 2 sources: 1 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 1 observation (
). It has been museum vouchered for 1 of 75 counties (). Years of collection range from 1992 to 2015.
This species has only two documented records for the state, both from northern Mississippi County, dated 1992 and 2015. A record from just across the border in the Missouri Bootheel (Daniel and Edmond, 2020) lends credence to these records. This frog is very similar in appearance to many L. sphenocephalus utricularius, which may have some influence in detection and sampling. Occurrence in northwest Arkansas cannot be completely discounted, on the basis of hypothesized ranges (Powell et al., 2016), although many leopard frogs from this corner of the state have been examined by experts and none have been identified as this species (K. G. Roberts, pers. obs., and J. D. Willson, pers. comm.).
