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''Patu digua'' is a very small species of
spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
. The male
holotype A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of s ...
and female
paratype In zoology and botany, a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype (and in botany is also neither an isotype (biology), isotype ...
were collected from Río Digua, near Queremal, Valle del Cauca, in
Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
. By some accounts it is the smallest spider in the world, as males reach a body size of only about —roughly one fifth the size of the head of a pin. The use of the spider as a necrobotic gripping tool in microscopic manipulations was suggested in 2022.


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References

Symphytognathidae Spiders of South America Arthropods of Colombia Spiders described in 1977 Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Araneomorphae-stub