Between October 2001 and December 2006, researchers collected ten mature adults (five male and five female) along with six immature individuals.

[3] In the two decades prior to 2013, only two dwarf lemur species were known, but in 2000 primatologist Colin Groves raised the number to seven based on morphological data acquired from museum samples.

The Lavasoa dwarf lemur, named for the Lavasoa Mountains in southern Madagascar, became the sixth known species in 2013 when it was differentiated from the furry-eared dwarf lemur (C. crossleyi) through analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear material performed by a team of German and Malagasy researchers.

Furthermore, their research suggested the existence of three more new dwarf lemur species that they provisionally named Cheirogaleus sp.

The authors speculated that even greater species diversity may be found among dwarf lemurs by future studies due to their large geographic range and the great genetic distance exhibited within the genus.

The back of the Lavasoa dwarf lemur is reddish-brown at the neck which fades to gray-brown at the posterior end.

Little is known about their behavior because they are primarily active during the rainy season, at which time the forests become challenging for scientists to reach.

These remaining forest fragments are contained within a new protected area around Ambatotsirongorongo (Nouvelle Aire Protégée Ambatotsirongorongo), which is part of the national service of protected areas (Système des Aires Protégées de Madagascar, SAPM).