Pseudicius maculatus is a jumping spider that was first described by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska in 2011.

[3] The genus was provisionally placed alongside Icius that, despite looking superficially similar, has a different etymology.

[4][5] Indeed, Ekaterina Andreeva, Stefania Hęciak and Jerzy Prószyński looked to combine the genera in 1984.

[6] The two genera have similar spermathecal structure but work by Wayne Maddison in 1987 demonstrated that they have very different DNA.

[11] The species name is based on a Latin word that can be translated spotted or speckled and recalls the pattern on the spider's abdomen.

Oval, slightly pear-shaped and flattened, it is chocolate brown with a covering of white hairs.

It is greyish-brown with a pattern of irregular and indistinct white patches on its topside and a dark underside.

[12] Compared to the male, it has a clearer pattern of black and yellow patches on the topside and a lighter underside.

The spider has an epigyne with a large oval central depression leading to a deep pocket that has gonopores on its edges.

[14] The short wide seminal ducts lead to single-chambered, heavily sclerotized receptacles.

[14] It was subsequently also found in Addo Elephant National Park and the Amathole Mountains in Eastern Cape.