[1] Cladomelea species, including C. akermani, are "bolas spiders" – adult females capture their prey by using a sticky drop on the end of a single line which they swing, usually catching male moths attracted by the release of an analogue of the attractant sex pheromone produced by the female moth.

The male was much smaller, with a total body length of 1.6 mm, about a tenth of that of the female.

The upper surface of the abdomen was spotted with black, grey and white, and had three humps and two hardened discs.

[2] Cladomelea akermani was first described by John Hewitt in 1923,[1] from a female collected by Conrad Akerman in 1915.

[2] Cladomelea species are bolas spiders, and although the genus was not included in two relevant molecular phylogenetic studies in 2014 and 2020,[6][7] would be expected to be part of the "mastophorines", placed in the subfamily Cyrtarachninae s.l.