The male is larger than the female and has a distinctive pedipalp with a three-armed apophysis on the femur and three apophyses on the tibia.

Asemonea amatola is a jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Charles Haddad in 2013.

[2] The species was allocated to the genus Asemonea, first raised by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.

[4] Molecular analysis demonstrates that the genus is similar to Goleba and Pandisus.

It has a pear-shaped white carapace, apart from two faint darker bands and black rings around the eyes.

It is similarly pale both on top and underneath, with indistinct dark steaks across the back.

[9] The carapace is low, pear-shaped and whitish-yellow, with two light brown streaks crossing the back.

[1] The female holotype was found in the Amatola Mountains of Eastern Cape in 2010 living in the canopy of broadleaf trees in a domestic garden.

[16] The male was first identified in the same locality in 2013, at an altitude of 1,250 m (4,100 ft) above sea level.