Biology:Patu digua
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Short description: Species of spider
| Patu digua | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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[1]
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Patu digua is a very small species of spider. The male holotype and female paratype were collected from Río 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 (0.015 in)[3]—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.[4]
See also
- Smallest organisms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Forster, Raymond R.; Platnick, Norman I. (9 May 1977). "A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates (2619): 1–29 [20]. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5471/1/N2619.pdf.
- ↑ William A. Shear (1986). Spiders--webs, Behavior, and Evolution. Stanford University Press. pp. 425–. ISBN 978-0-8047-1203-3. https://archive.org/details/spiderswebsbehav00shea.
- ↑ Taylor, Christopher (29 August 2008). "The Strangest of Spiders". http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2008/08/strangest-of-spiders.html.
- ↑ Yap, Te Faye; Liu, Zhen (Oct 2022). "Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators". Advanced Science (29): 2201174. doi:10.1002/advs.202201174. PMC 9561765. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/advs.202201174.
Wikidata ☰ Q1766911 entry
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