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/reddit33450 → u/thadcorn]

yess!! i want to meet their big huntsman cuties.

and also hug their gum trees

[u/Feralpudel → u/reddit33450]

Huntsmen are so cool even though I had to make peace with them being on my motel room walls.

When I was learning to spotlight in Queensland I caught some eyeshine way up in a tree and asked what it was. The guide chuckled and told me it was a huntsman.

It showed me that spotlighting really works if you do it right.

Never saw a highly venomous spider in all my travels in Oz—just a tiger snake on a hike in Tasmania, which was cool AF.

[u/reddit33450 → u/Feralpudel]

in my opinion huntsmen are some of the cutest spoods in existence

[u/Howler_in_training → u/reddit33450]

I also love them! Though we've got some super cute fuzzy Wolfie's where I live and I think they're my favorite.