Icius pulchellus is a species of jumping spider that lives in South Africa. A member of the genus Icius, the spider lives in grasslands and coastal environments. It was first described in 2011 by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska. The spider is small, with a forward section, or carapace, measuring between 2.0 and 2.5 mm (0.079 and 0.098 in) long and, behind this, an abdomen that is between 2.0 and 2.7 mm (0.079 and 0.106 in) in length. Its carapace is hairy and has a stripe running down the middle. The underside of the female's abdomen is covered in silver spots that are made of translucent guanine. The spider is similar to the related Icius minimus, but the male can be distinguished by the pattern on the top of its abdomen, which includes a brown stripe down the middle, and the female by the lack of a cross-hair pattern on its eye field. It copulatory organ are also distinctive, particularly the layout of the female's internal copulatory organs and the male's sickle-shaped embolus and short fat spike on its pedipalp, or tibial apophysis.

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