Patu digua

{{Short description|Species of spider}}

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| genus = Patu

| species = digua

| authority = 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 Río Digua, near Queremal, Valle del Cauca, in Colombia.{{cite journal |last1=Forster |first1=Raymond R. |last2=Platnick |first2=Norman I. |name-list-style=amp |title=A review of the spider family Symphytognathidae (Arachnida, Araneae) |journal=American Museum Novitates |date=9 May 1977 |issue=2619 |pages=1–29 [20] |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5471/1/N2619.pdf |hdl=2246/5471}}

By some accounts it is the smallest spider in the world,{{cite book|author=William A. Shear|title=Spiders--webs, Behavior, and Evolution|url=https://archive.org/details/spiderswebsbehav00shea|url-access=registration|year=1986|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1203-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/spiderswebsbehav00shea/page/425 425]–}} as males reach a body size of only about {{cvt|0.37|mm|in}}{{cite web | title=The Strangest of Spiders | last=Taylor | first=Christopher | url=http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2008/08/strangest-of-spiders.html | date=29 August 2008 }}—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.{{cite journal |last1=Yap |first1=Te Faye |last2=Liu |first2=Zhen |name-list-style=amp |title=Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators |journal=Advanced Science |date=Oct 2022 |volume=9 |issue=29 |pages=2201174 |doi=10.1002/advs.202201174|doi-access=free |pmid=35875913 |pmc=9561765 }}