It is found in the upper Amazon Basin in western Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and southern Colombia.

[1][3][4][5] In Ecuador it has been mixed with the newly described Dendropsophus shiwiarum.

The skin is smooth dorsally and granular ventrally.

[5] Its natural habitats are secondary and primary tropical rainforests where it occurs on arboreally.

They congregate for breeding in temporary ponds and swampy areas.