Because of its compact body shape, the species is sometimes referred to as small cigar stick insect.

Over the middle of the body there is usually a particularly distinct dark brown longitudinal band on the front abdomen and the metanotum, which is somewhat lighter on the mesonotum and is flanked here by black-colored tubercles.

[4][8] The species reproduces by parthenogenesis (female-only asexual reproduction), cyclically, so natural populations are generally exclusively female.

Bates chose the species name in honor of the French Southeast Asia traveler Henri Mouhot.

It was collected in Bangkok and is deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, France in Paris.

[9][14] Although Zompro is the first author of one of the 1999 papers, he prioritized 2004 a work published by him in 2000 as the first mention of Orestes mouhotii.

The holotype of Dares fulmeki is an adult female from Medan (Sumatra) in the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Joachim Bresseel, who co-authored the taxonomic classification of the species, only refers to the animals from the Kirirom National Park in Cambodia as Orestes mouhotii.

Francis Seow-Choen takes in 2018 the view that all of him in Phuket, on Malay Peninsula and in Singapore examined animals are represantitives of Orestes mouhotii.

Otherwise, depending on the interpretation of the species belonging to Cambodia, the distribution area extends over the south of Vietnam, Malay Peninsula and Singapore to Sumatra.

[16] The sister species collected in May 2018 by Christoph Röhrs on the Andamans on Havelock Island, also occurs there sexually.

In 2007 Kai Schütte brought a parthenogenetic stock with him from Tapah Hills in Perak near Pahang at Malay Peninsula.

After many years only these parthenogenetic stocks had been in breeding without naming the location, Jérôme Constant brought insects of both sexes from the Kiriom National Park in Cambodia in 2015, which means that since then a sexual stock with information on the origin has been in breeding again.