The male has a prominent tooth, which gives the species its name, recalling the fictional Count Dracula.

[1] It was allocated to the genus Bacelarella, which itself had been first raised by Lucien Beland and Jacques Millot in 1941.

[2] The genus is named in honour of the Portuguese arachnologist Amélia Vaz Duarte Bacelar.

[3] The species is named after the character of Count Dracula from the eponymous novel by Bram Stoker.

[4] In 2008, the genus was allocated to a clade named the Bacelarella group based on DNA sequencing.

The copulatory ducts are short and finish with a tight coil around just in front of the thick-walled and wide spermatheca.

[13] It lives sympatrically with related species in Ivory Coast, including the more abundant Bacelarella iactans, after which it is the most common of its genus to be found in the area.