Stenaelurillus glaber was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2011.

It has a dark brown pear-shaped carapace with four stripes, two more pronounced on the main body and two others on the edges.

[7] The abdomen is dark brown and has three large white spots on its rear half.

[8] The pedipalps are also yellow, but have numerous bristles on them, unlike Stenaelurillus pilosus.

[11][12] It can be distinguished from these species by the fact that the clypeus is yellow with white hairs.

[14] A further example was identified, a specimen collected in 1975, from Mount Niangbo in Ivory Coast.