It is endemic to the Andes of Peru and only known from the Pachitea and Ambo Provinces in the Huánuco Region, from near the type locality.

[2] The type series consists of females and juveniles; males are unknown.

The fingers and toes have no webbing nor lateral fringes; the digital tips are slightly swollen.

Coloration is variable; dorsal and lateral ground coloration vary in various shades of reds, browns, and greens (cinnamon, grayish horn color, pale pinkish buff, light russet vinaceous, robin rufous, brick red, brussels brown, brownish olive, and peacock green).

Ventral coloration is similarly variable (hair brown, lime green, straw yellow, glaucous, sulphur yellow to spectrum orange, Pratt's rufous).