The top of the spider is generally light brown with a black eye field and a pattern of stripes and streaks.

Tanzania meridionalis is a species of jumping spider that was first described by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska in 2011.

[1] It was one of over 500 species that the Polish arachnologist Wesołowska identified during her career, making her one of the most prolific in the field.

Spiders in the genus, which had previously been named Lilliput by Wesolowska and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2000 after the nation in Gulliver's Travels, are related to Euophrys and Talavera.

[4] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, the genus Tanzania was placed in the tribe Euophryini [5] This is a member of the clade Saltafresia.

[8] The species is named for the Latin word meridionalis, which means southern and refers to the fact that the spider had a more southerly distribution than other members of the genus discovered at the time.

It is covered in very light hairs and has a pattern consisting of a darker stripe down the middle and two streaks towards the rear on the top.

The spider's legs are generally dark yellow with brown rings, although the first pair are darker.

[14][15] The holotype for Tanzania meridionalis was found in the Erfenis Dam Nature Reserve in Free State in 2005.