It is found in the African Rift Valley in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu), southwestern Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and western Uganda.

[1] The specific name honours the German zoologist Johann G. Hermann Schubotz (1881–1955).

[5] The male advertisement call is a harsh series of double chirps.

It breeds by direct development, (i.e., there is no free-living larval stage[6]) thereby not depending on water.

[1] Specific threats to this species are unknown, but it probably will not tolerate complete opening of its habitat.