[2] The species was first described by Keith Arthur John Wise in 1972, and is endemic to the Auckland Islands of New Zealand.

[5] Wise's original text (the type description) reads as follows: A small pale species with dark dorsal surface of abdomen, known only from the unique ♂ holotype.

Segment II with a pair of sensory organs, VII with a long ventral process, VIII slightly produced mid-ventrally.

Segments I-VIII dark above, with fine transverse and longitudinal striae dorso-laterally.

Superior appendages large, almost as long as dorsal plate, each with basal inwardly curved process.