The triangle on the mesonotum typical of the genus is flat and ends, as in Tisamenus lachesis, with interposterior mesonotal spines.

[1][2] John Obadiah Westwood described the species in 1848 under the basionym Phasma (Pachymorpha) draconinum and depicts a female.

[5] While William Forsell Kirby followed this assignment in 1904 and named the species for the first time in combination with the genus name as Tisamenus draconinus,[6] Josef Redtenbacher 1906, Lawrence Bruner 1915 and also Philip Edward Bragg 1995 cite Stål with an alleged assignment of the species to Hoploclonia and calls it Hoploclonia draconina.

Redtenbacher mentions 1906 neither the work of Kirby nor its genus assignment and treats the species as a representative of Hoploclonia.

[2] Because Tisamenus draconinus does not occur on Borneo, Bragg assumes in 1995 and 1998 that the material was at least partially confused or mixed with Hoploclonia cuspidata,[7] although this was described by Redtenbacher in the same work using a female.

[1] A female lectotype and a male paralectotype are found in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

[1] On November 5, 2014, Thierry Heitzmann and Albert Kang collected two very differently colored adult females in a protected area near the Callao Cave in Cagayan Province.

From the eggs laid by these females, a sexual breeding stock was established, which was distributed as Tisamenus sp.

The result showed that the breeding stock from Palaui belongs to a new species that has yet to be described, while the one from Cagayan was identified as Tisamenus draconinus.