Endemic to South Africa, the species was first described in 2014 by Wanda Wesołowska, Galina Azarkina and Anthony Russell-Smith.

The male has a plain brown scutum in the top but a yellowish-grey or blackish underside with a pattern light dotted lines.

Euophrys meridionalis is a species of jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska Galina Azarkina and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2014.

[3] It was one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist Wesołowska during her career, more than any other contemporary writer and second only to the French archnologist Eugène Simon.

[1] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, the genus Euophrys was listed to the tribe Euophryini.

[13] Euophrys meridionalis is a very small spider with a body divided into two main parts: a rounded rectangular cephalothorax and an oval abdomen.

The carapace, the hard upper part of the cephalothorax, is dark brown with a black, slightly pitted eye field.

The top is a lighter brown and covered in a delicate hairless scutum white the underside is either yellowish-grey or blackish with a pattern of light dots forming four lines.

Its front legs are black with yellow parts while the remainder are mainly brown with lighter yellowish-grey patches.

It is a similar brown to the carapace, with two large patches to the front, two stripes that look like a succession of chevrons in an indented pattern in the middle and a series of diamonds to the rear, all lighter.

It has two copulatory openings placed to the sides that lead to simple insemination ducts, spermathecae and accessory glands.