Apparently very rare in Britain, it is known from a handful of southern coastal sites from Devon to Norfolk. However, it has proved extremely elusive, even at known sites, and is certainly very under-recorded.

Specimens have been collected from between the high water mark and the storm drift line on unvegetated or sparsely vegetated shores composed of shingle or sand, either in pit-fall traps or clinging beneath strandline driftwood. At Cole Point, Essex, it was found with Trichoniscus pusillus, Philoscia muscorum, Porcellio scaber and Armadillidium album (Gregory etal. 2001).