It is distinguished from other members of the genus by the male's elongated palpal bulb and straight embolus, and the horseshoe-shaped depression in the female's epigyne.

[4] Wayne Maddison placed the genus in the subtribe Aelurillina in the tribe Aelurillini in his 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, which was allocated to the clade Saltafresia.

[9] It can be distinguished from other members of the genus by its elongated palpal bulb, and straight embolus.

[7] The species is a specialist hunter and preys on termites in the genus Odontotermes.

[11] Despite the spider being a specialist hunter, the venom is equally effective against other prey.

[1][13] The holotype was identified in the Ndumo Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal based on a specimen collected in 2012.