The holotype had originally been described by Wanda Wesołowska and Meg S. Cumming in 2002 and allocated to the genus Mashonarus guttatus but was recognised as a new species 16 years later.

[4] The spiders in the genus were medium-sized, between 4.2 and 7.0 mm (0.17 and 0.28 in) in length, and were differentiated by their sexual organs.

At the time, the species was seen as very similar to Stenaelurillus, particularly in the structure of the epigyne and the shield-like shape of and patterns on the abdomen.

[5] In 2018, the spider was moved to Stenaelurillus by Dmitri Logunov and Galina N. Azarkina.

At the same time, a male paratype was recognised as a new species, Stenaelurillus pseudoguttatus.

[7] It was placed in the subtribe Aelurillina in the tribe Aelurillini in the clade Saltafresia by Wayne Maddison in 2015.

[8] Two years later, in 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.