It is known only from Périnet Special Reserve, Toamasina Province, Madagascar.

Adults of the species have a total length of 4.1mm, and is physically similar to several other Madagascar group spiders, particularly A. andasibe and A. wallacei.

The species is named for Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

Although multiple specimens were reported to have been collected, only two exist in collections; the rest were reported lost in transit when the co-discoverer, Ingi Agnarsson, brought his research materials from University of Puerto Rico to University of Vermont.

The two specimens which remain were partially destroyed for DNA barcoding.