This species inhabits the understory of Amazon tropical lowland rainforests, including primary terra firme forest, secondary forest, floodplain forest, igapó, capoeira (Crump 1971, Neckel-Oliveira et al. 2011), or near monocultures of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) or cacao (Theobroma cacao) (Estupiñán 2007). It also occurs in forest remnants close to urban areas (e.g. in the municipalities of Belém, Guama, Bragança and Santa Isabel do Pará), as well as in gardens and oil palm plantations and other fruit crops in Bragança. Therefore, it is assumed that the species can tolerate a certain degree of disturbance (M. Hoogmoed, Brazilian Red List Assessment Workshop 2021). In many areas of occurrence of this species it is contiguous to the forests. Therefore, the occurrence of this species in gardens and plantations can occur in regions that maintain a connection with forest areas, hence these records are sporadic (P. Peloso, M. Sturaro and Y. Bitar, Brazilian Red List Assessment Workshop 2021).

Both males and females are most active during the rainy months, and abundance is highly correlated with humidity (Correa et al. 2012). It has been speculated that reproductive activity in this species is triggered by high levels of precipitation or humidity (Neckel-Oliveira et al. 2011). Similar to most of its congeners, this species likely lays eggs which develop directly into metamorphosed juveniles (Wiens et al. 2007). The average clutch size for this species is 11 eggs.