It is a terrestrial frog of primary and secondary tropical rainforest, that is often associated with ant nests (Atta spp.). It can be found at the forest edge, pastures, and, in Bolivia, in the gallery forest within wet savanna. Animals can be found below logs, leaf-litter and other cover in forests. It has been recorded from logged forest, although its ability to adapt over the long-term is unclear. The species builds foam nests at the edge of temporary pools, and the larvae develop within these waterbodies.

This species is known from the Orinoco Basin of Colombia and Venezuela and the Amazonian basin of Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Rondonia, Mato Grosso, Pará, Tocantins, Maranhão, and Amapá; Cintra et al. 2014, de Freitas et al. 2014, Thaler et al. 2020, Dias-Souza et al. 2021, Fermiano et al. 2021). In Trinidad and Tobago it is known only from a single specimen collected at an unspecified locality on Trinidad Island in 1915, and verification of the presence of the species is needed. It occurs between sea level up to 1,800 m asl (in Bolivia).

This species occurs in many protected areas.