[3] The genus had been first circumscribed by Eugène Simon in 1902, and contained spiders that had a distinctive body shape, with a slightly pear-shaped carapace and an elongated narrow abdomen.

[4] In their comprehensive revision of the genus in 2022, Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith transferred the species to Hyllus.

[6] Molecular analysis confirms that they are related but the precise relationship between the genera is unknown and species from one genus are sometimes misidentified as members of the other.

[7][8] The genus Hyllus is found throughout Africa and contains one of the largest jumping spiders discovered.

[9] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, the genus Hyllus was placed in the clade Saltafresia.

It is red brownish apart from a light serrated stripe down the middle and is covered in colourless hairs interspersed with some longer brown bristles.

The spider has an epigyne that has two oval depressions divided by a ridge and a shallow notch at the edge of the very rear.

It has relatively short seminal ducts that lead to thick-walled spermathecae and two widely spaced pockets.