Originally allocated to the genus Pseudicius, it was moved to its current name by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016.

The legs are generally yellow, apart from the front pair on the male, which are brown, longer and stouter.

The female has an oval epigyne that has wide insemination ducts and long accessory glands.

The spiders are very similar to the related Afraflacilla venustula, from which they get their name, but may be distinguished by a study of their copulatory organs.

Afraflacilla imitator is a species of jumping spider, a member of the family Salticidae, that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Charles Haddad in 2013.

[3] First circumscribed by Eugène Simon in 1885, the genus is named after two Greek words that can be translated false and honest.

[5] The genus Pseudicius was made a member of the tribe Heliophaninae, which is ubiquitous across most continents of the world.

[8] A year later, in 2016, Jerzy Prószyński moved the species to the genus Afraflacilla on the basis of the shape of the copulatory organs.

[10] They can be distinguished from other jumping spiders by their flattened and elongated body and characteristic colour patterns.

The palpal bulb is rounded and has a long thin embolus that runs out from the bottom, around the top and then beyond, pointing away at an angle.

The copulatory openings lead to wide insemination ducts that follow a complex route to relatively small spermathecae.

[1] The holotype was found near Hogsback in the Amathole Mountains in 2011 at an altitude of 1,180 m (3,870 ft) above sea level.