This spider is known from eastern and central Africa; males have prominent projections near the bases of the chelicerae.
The male chelicerae have prominent proximal projections and small distal projections.
In February 1997, two males were collected around houses at Tatanda in Tanzania.
In October 1958, two males and two females were collected from a Macrotermes termite nest at Bendera in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The male described from Bendera has an ochre-yellow upper front body with brown median and lateral marks. Its abdomen is ochre-grey with dorsal and ventral patterns.
The described Bendera male has light brown legs, with pale tips to the leg femora and tibiae and darker rings distally and around the knee region.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.