[1] The species was first described by John Salmon in 1948, and is endemic to Manawatāwhi / Three Kings Islands in New Zealand.

The species was identified by Salmon in 1948, based on a specimen collected from leaf mould in the Manawatāwhi / Three Kings Islands by Evan Graham Turbott in 1946.

[4] Salmon's original text (the type description) reads as follows: Colour: Pale-yellow with purplish antennae, darkest towards tips; ocellar fields dark purple to black.

Clothing: Occasional simple setae with spines on top of head and around posterior of abdomen; dens with four pairs of ventral setae, numerous basal spine-like setae and an apical girdle of short, stout spines; legs sparsely clothed with short simple setae; four moderately long lasiotrichia to each side of abdomen, the upper bothriotrich on each side carries two lasiotrichia.

IV clothed with numerous long curved setae and supplied with a small apical finger and 9-10 short straight sense rods.