Vagrant spiders vary in colour from dark brown to almost black, they typically have a body length of 20mm and a 50mm leg span.

[1] After mating, the female prepares a chamber lined with silk beneath a log or stone on the forest floor, or inside a rotten log, where they construct a rather large and round egg sac that they guard until the young hatch and disperse.

[1] In 2003, Robert Raven and Kylie Stumkat considered that the genus was endemic to New Zealand, transferring all the Australian species they reviewed to other genera, and transferred Uliodon from the family Miturgidae to the Zoropsidae.

However, when mishandled, these spiders tend to inflict a painful bite given their large size.

The bites are usually without further consequences, but Watt (1971)[7] reported a case of a bad reaction (pain, swollen skin and stiff joints).