[3] Marples named the species after Graham Turbott, who had collected the original specimen from under stones on Manawatāwhi / Great Island.

[5] Marples' original text (the type description) reads as follows: Male.—Length 1.56 mm (0.061 in).

Carapace, sternum and the hard sclerities on the abdomen with a uniform granular surface.

Ratio of the diameters of the eyes and their distances apart: AM, 105; AL, 94: PM, 105; PL, 103; AM-AM, 57; AM-AL, 32; AM-PM, 70; PM-PM, 108; PM-PL, 66; L-L, 0: clypeus, 225.

Tarsal organ present, on I 63% of the length of the tarsus from the distal end.

In the cuticle covering the remainder are small thickenings forming longitudinal ridges, three of which pass dorsal to the spinnerets.

[3]The species is endemic to New Zealand,[2] known to occur on Manawatāwhi / Three Kings Islands.