The male has a conductor on its double embolus, which helps to distinguish the spider from the related Menemerus bifurcus.

[6] Genetic analysis has shown that the genus Menemerus is related to the genera Helvetia and Phintella.

[10] The vast majority of the species in Menemerines are members of the genus, with additional examples from Kima and Leptorchestes.

The spider has a very low white clypeus, dark brown chelicerae and brownish-orange sternum.

The pedipalps, which are brown with white hairs, have two tibial apophyses, a large lump at the base of the cymbium and a double embolus with a narrow conductor.

[12] The abdominal pattern helps to identify the species, but a study of the copulatory organs is needed to confirm each spider's identity.

[16] This species is particularly similar to the related Menemerus bifurcus, but differs in the shape of the male embolus, and particularly the existence of the conductor, and the lack of a triangular retrolateral bulb below the dorsal spike.

They attack using a complex approach to their prey and are generally more proactive in comparison to web-spinning spiders.

[17] The related Menemerus bifurcus lives in the tops of trees and descends to attack prey on long threads of silk.

[21] Menemerus spiders are found throughout Africa and Asia, and have been identified as far as Latin America.

[23] The first examples to be found in Lesotho were discovered in Moshoeshoe I International Airport near Maseru in 1977, and later near the Mohale Dam and in Qacha's Nek District in 2003.