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

[2] 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.

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

[12] Euophrys recta is a small spider with a body divided into two main parts: a broad cephalothorax and an oval abdomen.

The carapace, the hard upper part of the cephalothorax, is low and dark brown with depression, or fovea in the middle and is covered in translucent hairs.

The top has a pattern of two orange stripes on a background of mosaic-like patchwork of very small dark brown patches and a covering of thin hairs.

[15] The wider tibial apophysis and small embolic disk are key to distinguishing the spider from related species like Euophrys maseruensis.

[1][19] It has been found only in Western Cape, the male holotype being discovered in 2012 in the Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve near Suurbraak.