Patu digua
Patu digua | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Symphytognathidae |
Genus: | Patu |
Species: | P. digua
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Binomial name | |
Patu digua Forster & Platnick, 1977
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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.[1]
By some accounts it is the smallest spider in the world,[2] as males reach a body size of only about 0.37 mm[3] - roughly one fifth the size of the head of a pin.
References[]
- ^ "Patu digua, new species" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2619): 20. 9 May 1977.
- ^ William A. Shear (1986). Spiders--webs, Behavior, and Evolution. Stanford University Press. pp. 425–. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3.
- ^ Taylor, Christopher (29 August 2008). "The Strangest of Spiders".
Categories:
- Symphytognathidae
- Spiders of South America
- Spiders described in 1977
- Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick
- Araneomorphae stubs