What is the world's smallest spider?

Indy_B

The smallest spider known today is the female Anapistula caecula her counterpart the male may really be the smallest but no one has ever seen him yet. She can be found on the Ivory Coast in West Africa. She only measures to be 0.46 mm or 0.018 inches. http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/smallest50.html Mar 08 09, 2:43 AM

ozfei

I found this information: The smallest fully-grown spider in the world is the male of the species Patu digua (which hails from Borneo), which has a body length of just .37mm. That's smaller than the head of a pin! The link is http://arachnophiliac.info/burrow/smallest_spider.htm Mar 08 09, 2:49 AM

morge22

The smallest male spider known to man is the Patu digua from Columbia, South America. He is only around 0.37 mm or 0.015 inches. It's the same site, you can check the first reference. http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/smallest50.html Mar 08 09, 3:41 AM

davejacobs

There seem to be some pretty unreliable sites concerning Patu digua, but most say it is found in Columbia. I can't think where that Borneo habitat came from. http://www.freebase.com/view/en/patu_digua Mar 08 09, 10:10 AM

zbeckabee

The world's smallest spider is the Samoan moss spider: Samoan moss spider Patu marplesi, 0.1 inch It's less than 0.017 of an inch from the tip of one leg to the tip of another leg. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-spider.html http://www.weeklyreader.com/featurezone/spiderman3/index.asp Mar 08 09, 11:10 AM

Midget40

Okay this is getting confusing. The site I found says the Samoan moss spider too: "World's smallest spider = an orbweb from Samoa (body 0.43 mm long, about the size of a pinhead)." http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/education/insects_spiders/spiders/largest.asp But at 0.43 mm that is bigger than the Patu digua the other guys found so who knows? Mar 08 09, 12:18 PM