They originally placed the species in the genus Pseudicius, but Jerzy Prószyński moved it in 2017 to Afraflacilla on the basis of shape of its copulatory organs.

The species is best identified by the short blunt dorsal apophysis, or appendage, on its palpal bulb.

Afraflacilla karinae is a jumping spider that was first described by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska in 2011.

It was one of more than 500 species that the Polish arachnologist Wesołowska had a part in identifying during her career, which makes her one of the most prolific scientists in the discipline.

[3] The genus name is related to two Greek words that can be translated false and honest.

[4] The genus was provisionally placed alongside Icius that, despite looking superficially similar, has a different etymology.

[5][6] Indeed, Ekaterina Andreeva, Stefania Hęciak and Jerzy Prószyński looked to combine the genera in 1984.

[7] The two genera have similar spermathecal structure but work by Wayne Maddison in 1987 demonstrated that they have very different DNA.

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

[12] The species is named after Karin Haddad, the mother of the lead author of the paper that first described the spider.

The front legs are longer, stouter and darker with a swollen tibia that has one short and two long spines.