Males and females both reach a length of 6 mm.

[citation needed] The species was first described by Louis Fage in 1928 as Misumenops nepenthicola.

[1] A complication is that in 1930, W. S. Bristowe used the name Misumenops nepenthicola for a different species.

An application to preserve Bristowe's name over Fage's was rejected in 2007, and in 2009, Henriksenia labuanica was published as a replacement name for Bristowe's name.

[2] In 2006, Pekka T. Lehtinen wrote that the name "Misumenops nepenthicola" had been used for at least five different species, possibly because of a mistaken belief that there was only one species of spider belonging to the tribe Misumenini living in Nepenthes pitchers.