The female, which is larger, has a striped abdominal pattern, which distinguishes the species from the similar Rhondes flexibilis.

[2] The genus Rhondes was raised in 1901 by Eugène Simon endemic species of jumping spiders in New Caledonia.

[7] Small and slender, it has a shape that is typical of the genus, with a wide cephalothorax, thinner abdomen, very large chelicerae and very long endites.

[2] Rhondes atypicus was first identified from the male holotype and female allotype, that were found around Mont Panié on Grande Terre, New Caledonia in 1984.

[10] Despite the existence of similar environments on other islands across the Pacific Ocean, there is no evidence of the species in any other locale, and so it is endemic to New Caledonia.