Characteristics: Small species measuring about 2.0cm to 2.5cm in length. This frog's color ranges from orangish-brown to beige, with a darker spot on its back, whole or divided, resembling the shape of an hourglass. The back side of its thighs are reddish or orange. Females are usually larger than males.

Distribution: Its distribution area is broad, occurring everywhere from low-lying areas to the east of the Colombian Andes, throughout Venezuela and Trinidad, going towards the South, through Ecuador, Peru and Brazil up to Bolivia, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Habitat: Open formations, preferably in riparian and gallery forests, or bushes on the margins of ponds.

Habits: Crepuscular and nocturnal, arboreal or living on shrubs (it lives on the vegetation).

Diet: Small insects and arthropods.

Breeding: Oviparous with a prolonged reproductive pattern, vocalizing for several months throughout the year. They spawn in water, and each spawning results in about 300 eggs, almost all of which fertilized. It sings complex songs, which may involve up to three notes in a same song.

UFRA: Species seen in Wetlands with herbaceous plants, Restored native forests and Drainage Ditches. The literature reports this species is an indicator of pollution-free environments.