Neaetha maxima is a species of jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska & Anthony Russell-Smith in 2011.

[8] The subtribe is divided into harmochirines and pellenines, and the genus is allocated to the latter group, which is characterised by living on open sunny ground.

[1] The spider is large, more than three times larger than other species in the genus like Neaetha catula, with a length over 10 mm (0.39 in).

It has a light brown rhomboid carapace with a high cephalon, with half taken up with a darker eye field.

The ovoid abdomen is narrower and lighter, yellow-white in colour with a faint grey chevron pattern visible.

[11] The species distribution was extended to include Ivory Coast in 2022, based on examples found near the Bandama River in 1975.