[2] As of 2019[update], it is known only from critically endangered sand forest environments in northern Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

In 2017 a professional entomologist joined the study and a number of live specimens were collected from the Phinda reserve.

[2] The first addition in 28 years to the 31 previously known button, or widow spiders in the genus Latrodectus, of which eight are found in Africa.

[5] Females have red markings on both the ventral and dorsal surfaces of the abdomen, unlike any other African Latrodectus species.

[3] The large smooth egg sacs are bright purple when freshly laid, fading to shiny grey as they dry.