They are found in China, India, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia, including the island of Borneo.

[1] These frogs have long toes with strong webbing between them, enabling the animals to jump from tree to tree, using the webbing to control a gliding descent, a form of arboreal locomotion known as parachuting.

The present genus is closely related to Polypedates, which (formerly) was included in Rhacophorus.

Even today, it is not fully agreed upon which of these genera "P." feae and the Chinese flying frog ("R." dennysi) properly belong to; furthermore, a supposedly new species, "P. pingbianensis", has been found to be the same as R. duboisi.

[3][4] Some species like Rhacophorus kio will wrap this and cover this foam nest with leaves.