[4] Hemideina broughi is found in North west South Island New Zealand between the Tasman Mountains and Greymouth in native temperate rain forests at elevations up to 1100 m above sea level.

Hemideina broughi shelters inside tree branches or hollow trunks of living beech (Nothofagus sp.)

[5] Before preservation as a holotype specimen, an adult female was observed in a glass pickle-jar by Mr Brough who wrote "..[she] became quite lively by night, and at times emitted a chattering kind of sound."

Instead of ridges making a stridulatory file, H. broughi have patches of minute pegs on their abdominal tergites.

[6] As male H. broughi do not have large heads compared to females it is thought they do not have the same polygamous mating system seen in other Hemideina species.