This spider has been found in eastern Africa, the Comoros, and Madagascar, including around buildings and beneath stones.
The male chelicerae have slender proximal projections and distal projections.
Mainland African specimens are known from urban areas, including an outer building wall and a botanical garden.
For Madagascar, a 1946 report recorded it in forests, beneath large rocks, in caves and crevices, and under bridges.
The male described from Dar es Salaam has an ochre-yellow upper front body with a brown median mark and indistinct lateral marks. Its abdomen is ochre-grey with dorsal and ventral patterns.
The female genital plate on the underside of the abdomen is distinctively long.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.