The abdomen has a distinctive pattern that is basically shaped like a capital "H", referred to in the species name, which can be translated "spotted".

Evarcha maculata is a species of jumping spider, a member of the family Salticidae, that was first described by the arachnologists Christine Rollard and Wanda Wesołowska in 2002.

[1] Named for a Latin word that can be translated as "spotted" and recalls the pattern on the spider's abdomen, it was one of over 500 species identified by Wesołowska during her career, making her one of the most prolific in the field.

[6] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, the genus Evarcha was moved to the subtribe Plexippina.

[7] Plexippina is a member of the tribe Plexippini, which was listed in the subclade Simonida in the clade Saltafresia by Wayne Maddison in 2015.

[12] This designation is not widely accepted and the species remains in the Evarcha genus in the World Spider Catalog.

The carapace, the hard upper part of the cephalothorax, is yellowish and marked with grey lines along its edges and an indistinct brown stripy pattern on the top.

The spider's face, or clypeus, is relatively low and has a covering of white hairs that is particularly dense around its cheeks.

[14] The top is generally yellowish with a greyish-brown pattern that looks similar to a large capital "H", and a covering of white and brown hairs.

The male's pedipalp is brownish with dense hairs on the cymbium that forms the main outer cover for the palpal bulb.

Attached to the base of the bulb, the palpal tibia is also hairy and has a large straight protrusion, or tibial apophysis, that also has a sharp end.

[15] The simple nature of the tibial apophysis contrasts with the more complex design on the otherwise similar Evarcha mirabilis.

It has a high carapace with a sloping back that is generally brownish-orange and covered in brown hairs, with a short dark eye field.

Its external genital structure, or epigyne, is sclerotized and has a shallow depression in the middle and two pockets to the rear near the epigastric furrow.

A study of the related Evarcha arcuata found that the spider will rest hanging from a silken thread.

[1] The holotype was discovered in 1991 on Mount Leclerc, one of the Nimba Range in the Guinea Highlands, at an altitude of 900 m (3,000 ft) above sea level.