This species inhabits lowland tropical forest and premontane forest where it can use bromeliads and other epiphytes as a refuge during the dry season. It is probably most common in banana groves on the forest edge, and it also lives in selectively logged forest and shaded coffee plantations (in this last habitat it occurs mainly in the lowlands). It breeds by direct development.

This species ranges from southeast Veracruz and northeast Oaxaca in the Uxpanapa-Chimalapas region, to the Atlantic slope of Chiapas, Mexico, through southern and central Belize and northern Guatemala to southern and northern and central Honduras (S. Rovito pers comm. August 2019). There is also an isolated population in the Yucatan Peninsula, at northwestern Quintana Roo and adjacent Yucatan. New and recent records for this species include El Mojonal, Ocotepeque municipality in Honduras (McCranie and Valdés-Orellana 2011), Academic Division of Biological Sciences of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco Reserve in Centro municipality in Mexico (Hernández-Guzmán et al. 2012), Humid Pine-Oak Forest in Oventic Caracol Zapatista, Tenejapa municipality in Mexico (García-Padilla and Mata-Silva 2014), and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Campeche State, Mexico (Colston et al. 2015). It has also been recorded in El Salvador for the first time in Cerro La Palma in La Palma municipality, Chalatenango Department (Morán-Hidalgo et al. 2015), and in Montecristo National Park in Santa Ana Department (Grünwald et al. 2016). Its occurs from sea level up to 2,054 m asl (García-Padilla and Mata-Silva 2014). Its presence is uncertain in Nicaragua, and it could occur between known sites but field surveys are required for confirmation (P.A. Caballero pers. comm. July 2016).

Conservation Actions In-Place
This species occurs in a number of protected areas, including the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala and the Reserva del Hombre y Biosfera del Rio Platano in Honduras. In Mexico its distribution range is within the Selva El Ocote Biopshere Reserve, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Cañón del Sumidero National Park, Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve and Lagunas de Montebello National Park among others.

Research Needed
Further research is required to determine the full distribution of this species.