The majority of records pertain to an area sandwiched between the lower Arut and Kumai rivers, south of the towns of Pangkalan Bun and Kumai in Kalimantan Tengah (Central Kalimantan) province, Borneo, Indonesia. Addditional collections have taken place in the Sampit river basin to the east, and several hundred kilometres further north in Sukadana district Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan) province.

Type locality is ‘Indonesia: Borneo: Kalimantan Tengah: Arut basin: Pankalanbun’, with the specimens having been obtained from the aquarium trade.