The male's body is very dark, almost completely black, with red and orange hair on the upper surface of the abdomen and on the legs.

A specimen received by tarantula keeper Heinz-Josef Peters under the name "Aphonopelma pallidum" was sent to Günter Schmidt for study.

Ray Gabriel and Stuart Longhorn in 2015 gave the location of a female collected by Arturo Locht in Mexico as Acapulco, i.e. on the Pacific coast.

[6] This seemed to contradict the original description Gunter Schmidt [2] who stated that the "locus typicus" is further north and inland than had been reported previously by Locht et al.

Elsewhere he refers to field collected information by Peter Klaas that the "species could occur in the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca" and who gave detailed their lifestyle in nature.