The spider makes sounds by rubbing its yellow front legs against the area of its carapace under its eyes.

Afraflacilla mushrif is a jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Antonius van Harten in 2010.

[1] It is one of over 500 species identified by the Polish scientist Wesołowska during her career, leading her to be one of the most prolific in the field.

[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.

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

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

The female of this species have a carapace, the hard upper part of the cephalothorax, that is oval, low and reddish-brown, with a covering of delicate white hairs.

The spider rubs a small number of bumps on its front legs against a row of thick bristles underneath the eyes.

The copulatory openings lead to wide insemination ducts and smaller receptacles, or spermathecae.

[17] That spider has been observed living amongst the leaves of Prosopis cineraria trees in vegetated dunes.