Breeding takes place in shallow pans, vleis, open swamps, and dams with floating vegetation such as water lilies.

[1] Hyperolius pusillus is also found in Eswatini, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, and Tanzania.

They are generally green, with darker specks covering their bodies, and different populations display patterns such as an hourglass shape (found in Kenya).

Sexual dimorphism is found in the color of the throat, which is in males white and in females green.

The population trend is unknown but this frog faces no particular threats and seems an adaptable species, so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of "least concern".