 Specimens in Hebard's 1917 description were collected from the Chisos Mountains, Shovel Mountain in Burnet County, the Nueces River in Zavala County, and the towns of Fort Davis, Johnstone (in Val Verde County), Rio Frio, and Sabinal.The species occurs in desert and semidesert mountainous areas.It has been found on the ground "in dry-creek bed through scrub, pine, and juniper forest", it is rarely found on the desert floor, and the type species was found under a boulder in bare desert, a common strategy of desert-inhabiting animals to avoid the extremes of desert climates.