 It was described from a single collected female found in rice fields of Luzon Island on the Philippines.The female has several unusual morphological features, including a large number of ventral macrosetae on legs I and II, prominent sparse rows of elongate setae on the dorsum, a multi-cusped retromarginal tooth, and an epigynum, superficially this looks like a euophryine, but is quite different structurally.The other species, "G. curioi", was documented by Freudenschuss, Grabolle & Krehenwinkel in 2016, found in the Philippines.