[1] This species was described as Aparua houhora in 1968 by Ray Forster from a single female collected in Northland.

[2] The holotype is stored at Auckland War Memorial Museum under registration number AMNZ5045-1.

The abdomen is brown with patches dorsally.

[1] This species is only known from Houhora in Northland, New Zealand.

[1] Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Data Deficient" with the qualifiers of "Data Poor: Size" and "Data Poor: Trend".