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

The female has a pattern of white lines on its abdomen, which is otherwise brown on top and yellowish underneath.

The male makes sounds by rubbing short hairs on its front legs with its carapace.

It lives in the canopy of trees of the Vachellia genus in the mountains of Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, after which it is named.

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

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

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

Its carapace is a dark brown flattened oval, covered in thin colourless hairs.

It is a brown ovoid with a pattern of white hairs on the top contrasting with the underside, which is yellowish.

The spider has an oval epigyne that is wider than it is long and has two pockets and two round depressions to the front.

[13] The copulatory openings lead to long twisted insemination ducts that follow a complex route to narrow spermathecae.

For example, while the spider is externally very similar to the related Afraflacilla karinae, the male differs in the shape of the tibial apophysis.

Like other members of the genus, the species lives in the fogging canopy of Vachellia trees in grassland habitats.