The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the following countries in the confirmed distribution (from west to east): the Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan.

Furthermore, it is expected to occur in many intervening countries (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Sudan).

[1] The specific name weidholzi honours Alfred Weidholz, an Austrian wildlife dealer, explorer, and traveler.

[3][4] The males call from dense, low grass that grow on soils flooded by a few centimetres of water.

The eggs are placed in small batches in transversally folded grass leaves, glued together by jelly.