Type locality. Río Madre de Diós, departamento Madre de Diós, Peru.
Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, mostly in Amazonia (Plt. 127A). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and also in Guianan savannas (Plt. 127A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 127B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in primary forest (Dixon et al., 1993; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Martins et al., 2008a).