Reported from Argentinian Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas by Calvelo & Liberatore (2002). The species is common in central parts of Torres del Paine National Park, more often on rocks than tree trunks.
Specimens examined: CHILE. XII REGIÓN DE MAGALLANES: Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, 300 m E of Camping Pehoe, 51 ° 07’S, 73 ° 00’W, 80 m, on Nothofagus sp., 12 Mar 1998, Bjerke, J. W . 159/98 (TROM); 0.5 km NW of Guardería Laguna Amarga. 50 ° 59’S, 72 ° 47’W, 80 m, on cortex of Nothofagus antarctica in a SW facing slope near the river, 27 Nov 1996, Elvebakk, A . 96:521 (TROM); 500 m N of the western lake of Lagunas Mellizas, 51 ° 03’30”S, 72 ° 59’W, 100 m, very large specimens on rock surfaces in an open forest in a S-facing slope, 3 Dec 2000, Elvebakk, A . 00:900 (TROM); 00:904 (TROM); Pudeto, 300 m W of the northernmost inlet, 51 ° 04’S, 73 ° 01’W, 100 m, on a S-facing rock surface in Mulinum spinosum shrubland, 11 Dec 1999, Elvebakk, A . 99:1303 (TROM); Camping Pehoe, E side of Lago Pehoe, 51 ° 07’S, 73 ° 01’W, 70 m, on trunks of Nothofagus antarctica, 10 Mar 1998, Elvebakk, A . 98:459 & Bjerke, J. W. (TROM).