It was described in 1918 by Australian arachnologists William Joseph Rainbow and Robert Henry Pulleine.

The specific epithet valida means ‘true’ or ‘valid’.

[1][2] The species occurs in the border ranges of north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland, where it inhabits closed and open forest habitats.

[2] The spiders construct burrows, especially beneath logs, the entrances to which are lined and extended with silk.

They are terrestrial predators of invertebrates and small vertebrates.