It is a large spider, particularly the male, with a carapace that is between 3.9 and 4.6 millimetres (0.15 and 0.18 in) long, and shares features to both species in its own genus and those in the family Pelleninae.

Eburneana scharffi is a species of jumping spider that was first named by Wanda Wesołowska and Tamás Szűts in 2001.

[2] The species is named in honour of Nikolaj Scharff, the curator of Arachnida at the Zoological Museum at the University in Copenhagen.

[7] The female has a series of light patches on its abdomen made from short white hairs that form a distinguishing pattern.

[7] Compared to the male Eburneana wandae specifically, the spider can be identified by the swollen tibia in the front leg and more robust chelicerae.