This species occurs along the southern coast of Mexico from Michoacán and Jalisco to Chiapas. There is a new state record from the municipality of Ixtlahuacan in Colima (Marvalee Wake pers. comm., 2007).
Its population status is not known. It has only been collected a few times. The recent record from Colima is the first record in 30 years (Marvalee Wake pers. comm., 2007).