The female has a deep depression behind the eyes.
The male and female have a nearly spherical abdomen without projecting dorsal humps.
The male used to describe Zephyrarchaea vichickmani was 2.77 mm long. Three examined females measured 3.44–3.90 mm. Females lack the accessory hairs present on the front of male chelicerae.
The 2012 description brought together specimens collected years apart in the same forest. At Acheron Gap, Victoria, a juvenile was obtained in a pitfall-trap sampling period from February to April 1996; a female came from a separate June–August period. These traps were in Nothofagus cunninghamii forest.
On 29 March 2010, elevated leaf litter beneath tree ferns was sifted at 769 metres. This material included the male holotype, female allotype, another female and six juveniles. Pitfall trapping and sifting litter beneath vegetation documented the small spider in the same forest. Its name honours Professor Victor Hickman’s contributions to arachnology.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The collecting locality lies in Yarra Ranges National Park. Its June 2002 management plan discusses Myrtle Wilt, a fungal disease affecting Myrtle Beech, and identifies damage to stems and roots during road and track works as a factor that can exacerbate its spread. It includes measures for works near these trees and calls for disease surveys and monitoring. Alongside such forest management, further surveys of this spider’s distribution would provide a basis for conservation.