The species, first known as Brancus signata, was first described in 2016 by Angelika Dawidowicz and Wanda Wesołowska.

The spider is small and yellow with a chevron pattern on its abdomen and teardrop shapes on its carapace, after which it is named.

The new genus was called Vicirionessa, a combination of the name Viciria and the ending nessa.

It is most similar to Vicirionessa peckhamorum, differing mainly in the shape and design of the seminal ducts, which are short and multichambered.

[7] In 2022, when Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith were undertaking an assessment of a large collection of spiders brought by Jean-Claude Ledoux from Ivory Coast to France between August 1974 and January 1976, they discovered another example that originated in the Lamto Scientific Reserve in Ivory Coast.