[1] Very few specimens of the genus were known until it was discovered that they primarily inhabited dead fronds of rainforest ferns.

[4][1] Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved to a family of its own, Huttoniidae, in 1984, in the superfamily Palpimanoidea.

[5] Fossils of this family have been found in Cretaceous (Campanian) amber from Alberta and Manitoba, Canada.

This extended the known geological age of the Huttoniidae back about 80 million years, supporting the theory of H. palpimanoides being an ousted relict species.

[7] Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Naturally Uncommon" with the qualifier of "Range Restricted".