Species has been known from lowland rainforest of central Sarawak and Pulau Serasan, South Bunguran Islands (Lesser Natuna), Indonesia. It potentially occurs more widely in Sarawak than current records suggest. The type locality in the original description was given as Pulau Serasan, Indonesia.

It is very similar to other species in the subgenus Leptobrachella but distinguished from all by a lateral dark stripe.