While the female is hard to distinguish compared to others in the genus, the male spider has distinctive white or tawny bands on the clypeus.

[1] The genus name was derived from the Latin word saltus, meaning something that jumps.

[6] In 2017, the genus was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines by Jerzy Prószyński.

Two white stripes cross the otherwise black eye field and extend along the rest of the carapace.

The palpal bulb has two short tibial apophyses and distinctive blended appendages that extend from the middle.

It is similar in colour but has a covering of white and yellow scales that can form a pattern reminiscent of a net.

[13] Similarly, there is too large a variation in the male palpal bulb to enable clear differentiation.

[11] Examples have also been found in locations around the country including Zemmouri in 1984, El Harrach in 1985, Reghaïa in 1988 and Taghit in 1989.

[15] The spider has been found in Tunisia, first noted in Aïn Draham by Eugène Simon in 1885.

However, when this example was re-examined by Galina Azarkina and Dmitri Logunov in 2006, it was found to be the related Aelurillus luctuosus.

Examples have been found in open grassland amongst flowering plants like Oxalis pes-caprae, in areas of shrubs like Cistus salviifolius, near to pools found in dunes, in palm groves and within plantations of cedar trees.