The name maolan comes from the type locality. The paper describes a female; the male is recorded as unknown.
The female holotype is 4.88 mm long. Its abdomen is yellow-brown above and yellowish brown underneath. The article records the male as unknown.
The female holotype was collected at 587 m in Maolan National Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, on 28 April 2017. The stated habitat is beneath the humus layer in deciduous broadleaf forests.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.