First described in 2016 by Barbara Patoleta, the species has been found on both Grande Terre and Isle of Pines, living in rainforests.

It is small and slender, with a wide brown hairy cephalothorax and thinner abdomen that is patterned with light and dark patches.

[1] 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.

[8] Rhondes berlandi was first identified from the female holotype and eight juvenile paratypes found around Mont Canala on Grande Terre, New Caledonia.

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