There is a yellow stripe that separates the dorsal from the ventral coloration on the limbs and above the cloaca.

[2] The species' habitat is mesic pine-oak forest; a single female frog was found in late afternoon, inactive between the leaves of an arboreal bromeliad at 2,550 m (8,370 ft) above sea level.

[1][2] Other amphibians found at the locality were salamanders Craugastor mexicanus and Bolitoglossa oaxacensis and frogs of the Exerodonta sumichrasti group.

[2] The area of type locality was covered with relatively intact forest at the time the holotype was collected in 2001.

However, many slopes of the Sierra de Miahuatlan have been at least partially cleared for agriculture.