It was first described in 1901 by Eugène Simon based on examples found in South Africa, and subsequently also identified in Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

The female has a flat plate epigyne with widely separated copulatory openings and insemination ducts and a deep narrow pocket.

[6] Meanwhile, in 2006, Charles R. Haddad and the Polish arachnologist Wanda Wesołowska identified a new species, Stenaelurillus natalensis.

[8] This new species was generally similar to Stenaelurillus guttiger but differed in that the tip of the males's embolus was hidden and there was a chamber in the female's epigyne.

[7] In 2018, Dmitri V. Logunov and Galina N Azarkina found the sexual organs to be similar across the specimens of both species and consequently they combined them under the current name.

[12] This does not seem to depend on geographic location with, for example, males with different colour legs and palpal bulbs often living in the same area.

[11][14] The spider is distinguished from other members of the genus by its short embolus, shaped like a claw, sitting on a wide round base.

[16] The epigyne has a flat plate with widely separated lateral copulatory openings and a deep narrow pocket.

[17] Although it is similar to Stenaelurillus furcatus, it can be distinguished by the narrowness of the epigyne pocket and the way that the insemination ducts are spaced apart.

[7] The species is a specialist hunter and preys on different types of termites, including members of the genera Macrotermes and Odontotermes.

[25] It has subsequently been found across the country, with examples coming from the provinces of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.