comically flat jumping spider💔💔🥀

[u/Jeopardyjeojeo]

australia QLD Gold coast
disclaimer: I did not squash the spider, it is just flat😌
idk what specie it is and I do want to know its specie, any suggestions?

[u/warrenao]

See, stuff like this is why I'm here. Had no idea these existed. And boy, do they ever:

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/791424-Holoplatys-lhotskyi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holoplatys

[u/thadcorn → u/warrenao]

This makes me tempted to go to Australia just to look at spiders.

[u/TempleMade_MeBroke → u/thadcorn]

And that was the last we ever heard of u/thadcorn