The species is indigenous to the Western Cape of South Africa.

Its smooth (almost silky) body is usually covered in dark-edged white spots.

[citation needed] P. geitje typically lives on the ground among debris and under rocks.

Further inland it only lives higher in the mountains where rocky outcrops provide it with sufficient places to hide.

[citation needed] Pachydactylus geitje lays a clutch of two tiny eggs in the summer.