The spider has distinctive copulatory organs, particularly the short coiled embolus on the male and the sclerotized fringes on the female epigyne.

Tanzania mkomaziensis is a species of jumping spider, a member of the family Salticidae, that was first described by the arachnologists Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2000.

[2] Wesołowska and Russell-Smith initially allocated the spider to the genus Lilliput, circumscribed at the same time by the same authors.

[5] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, the genus Tanzania was placed in the tribe Euophryini [6] This is a member of the clade Saltafresia.

[5] It is rather high and generally yellowish-orange with a covering of long thin brown and grey hairs.

[5] It is dark grey or greyish on top, with some having a vague fawn pattern just visible in the middle.

[12] The female copulatory organs include an external epigyne that shows weak signs of sclerotization and has a spiral fillet near the gonopores.

The two copulatory openings lead via short insemination ducts to spherical receptacles, or spermathecae.

They attack using a complex approach to their prey and are generally more proactive in comparison to web-spinning spiders.

[15] Tanzania mkomaziensis is mostly active during wet months, including March, April and November.

[12] The spider lives in a wide range of habitats, particularly hillsides dominated by plant species of the genera Acacia and Commiphora, as well as Combretum bushland and Dichrostachys scrubland .

[5] It was subsequently identified in Ivory Coast, the first specimen being found in 1975 but not recognised until 25 years later.

[18] The first example to be identified in South Africa was found in the Sandveld Nature Reserve in Free State in 2009.