The habitat consists of rich temperate rainforest and Valdivian forest in the Puyehue area around Aguas Calientes and Anticura in Chile on the western side of the Andes, as well as Valdivian-type forest on the north-western side of Lago Lacar in Argentina on the eastern side of the Andes, in an area otherwise dominated by deciduous Nothofagus forest. Finally, two specimens were collected east of Volcan Villarrica in secondary Nothofagus forest.