The name nanling comes from the type locality. The paper describes a female; the male is recorded as unknown.
The female holotype is 4.78 mm long, and the description calls its abdomen oval. The article records the male as unknown.
The female holotype was collected at Nanling Forest Park, Shaoguan City, Guangdong, China, in July 2016. The stated habitat is beneath the humus layer in deciduous broadleaf forests.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.