It is endemic to Colombia and only known from its type locality in the upper Río Saija drainage, Cauca Department.

[3] The type series consists of one subadult female that measures 30 mm (1.2 in) in snout–vent length.

The coloration is grayish brown dorsally and black laterally, with a pinkish line that extends from the groin to above the eye and onto the canthus rostralis separating them.

Males calls from beneath leaf litter and from leaf-litter covered holes in the ground.

No major threats to this species have been identified because it occurs in an area of little human impact.