Latitudinal range: -35.6° to -6.7°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (4)

Found in 5 samples

Australia: New Chum's Road, Blue Gum Swamp Creek, Longneck Lagoon Nature Reserve (1968), Goode Beach

Papua New Guinea: Crater Mountain Biological Research Station

See also Dacelo gaudichaud, Dacelo gigas, Dacelo novaeguineae