[1] These nocturnal, arboreal spiders are endemic to the North Island of New Zealand and build large horizontal sheet-webs with a large number of knock-down threads.

[2][1] C. foliata have a reddish-brown cephalothorax and greyish yellow abdomen.

While males and females of this species are of a similar size with a cephalothorax width of approximately 5.8mm, males have significantly longer chelicerae compared to females.

[3] While males of other Cambridgea species possess a stridulatory organ on the dorsal surface of the pedicel and abdomen,[4] it is absent in male C. foliata[5].

In the summer season, mature males depart their natal webs in search of females, sometimes wandering into people's houses'.