This spider was described from Cibagou National Nature Reserve in Chayu County, Xizang, China. Its epithet honours Yejie Lin for contributions to the taxonomy and identification of Chinese Anyphaena species.
The female holotype is 7.84 mm long. Its dorsal abdomen is fuchsia, with irregular yellow and fuchsia markings.
The female holotype and four female paratypes were collected at about 2,880 m in Cibagou National Nature Reserve, Chayu County, Xizang. Two further female paratypes were collected in the same reserve at about 2,570 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.