[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 Latin word for shy, pavidus, which recalls the simple design of the male pedipalp.

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

It has a dark brown eye field with a pattern of white hairs consisting of a band and a triangle shape.

The palpal bulb has an ovoid cymbium and long tegulum, from which the short embolus extends.

[9] It lives sympatrically with related species in Ivory Coast, including the more abundant Bacelarella iactans.