Hyperolius acuticeps is a species of frogs found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and possibly Botswana, the Central African Republic, Chad, Namibia, and Swaziland. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, temperate grasslands, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grasslands, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grasslands, subtropical or tropical...
This species is said by Pickersgill (2007) to range widely in western and eastern Africa, south to South Africa. However, here we restrict its range to the confirmed localities given by Pickersgill (2007), in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal), Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It must presumably also occur in other countries such as Mozambique and Swaziland, and this is included in the species' distribution on the map. Clarification of the range of this species will require resolution of the taxonomic issues in the Hyperolius nasutus complex.