However, the specific name acridoides appears to refer to its superficial similarity to the North American cricket frog Acris gryllus,[3] of no close relation (family Hylidae).

This species exhibits a number of different color morphs; a narrow pale or green vertebral band is often present.

[3] The male advertisement call has been characterized as "a coarse, rasping croak", "a continual harsh creaking snore", or "cricket-like".

[3] Phrynobatrachus acridoides occurs in dry and humid savanna, shrubland, grassland, and coastal habitats.

Breeding takes place in mostly temporary but also permanent waterbodies, such as puddles, pools, swamps, vleis, roadside ditches, and flooded grassy depressions.