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Patu digua

Patu digua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Symphytognathidae
Genus: Patu
Species: P. digua
Binomial name
Patu digua
Forster & Platnick, 1977

Patu digua is a very small species of spider. The male holotype and female paratype were collected from Rio Digua, near Queremal, Valle del Cauca in Colombia.

By some accounts it is the smallest spider in the world, as males reach a body size of only about 0.37 mm - roughly the size of the head of a pin. However, there are other spider species of similar size where only the female is known; and male spiders are generally smaller.



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