Smallest spider webs
- Who
- midget spiders (family Symphytognathidae)
- What
- 10 millimetre(s)
- Where
- Australia
- When
- 01 November 2015
The smallest spider webs are created by the so-called midget spiders belonging to the taxonomic family Symphytognathidae. The webs can be less than 10 mm in diameter. These mini-spiders occur principally in the tropics of Latin America and Australasia, but there are three species in Africa and one in Japan too.
Not surprisingly, spiders that produce such minute webs are themselves very tiny, too, and include among their number (currently totalling 44 recognized species) a famously small species, Patu digua, which, with a total body length of only 0.37 mm, is one of the world's smallest spider species.