A jumping spider that lives in Ethiopia and named in honour of the country in which it is found, it was first described in 2008 by Wanda Wesołowska and Beata Tomasiewicz.

The split at the end of the appendage on the pedipalp tibia marks out the male, and the female has longer seminal ducts and thinner spermathecae than others in the genus.

Nigorella aethiopica is a species of jumping spider, a member of the family Salticidae, that was first described by the arachnologists Wanda Wesołowska and Beata Tomasiewicz in 2008.

[4] Medium-sized to large, the spiders resemble Hyllus, but differ in the design of the copulatory organs of both sexes.

[6] Previously termed Plexippeae, by Eugène Simon in 1901, and identified as a subfamily, the tribe is part of the clade Saltafresia.

[9] Nigorella aethiopica is large spider, the largest in the genus, with a total length of about 10 mm (0.39 in).

The carapace, the hard upper shell of the cephalothorax, is oval and of medium height with a gently sloping back section.

There is a pattern consisting of a light stripe towards the front of the top of the abdomen and eight patches in pairs to the back.

[11] The species shares the sclerotised cup-like areas which hide the gonopores in the epigyne that helps to distinguish Nigorella spiders.

The split in the tip of the tibial apophysis helps distinguish the male while the female can be identified by its longer seminal ducts and slimmer spermathecae.

However, the other species has a single tip to the male tibial apophysis and the female has strong sclerotisation on the first parts of the insemination ducts.