Where do Patu digua spiders live?

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.

By some accounts it is the smallest spider in the world, as males reach a body size of only about 0.37 mm - roughly one fifth the size of the head of a pin. However, there are other spider species of similar size where only the female is known; and male spiders are generally smaller.

The smallest spiders are from the family Symphytognathidae, which occurs in every continent except Antarctica. There is a debate over which species from this family should be considered the smallest overall. Two contenders are from the genus Patu: males of Patu digua described in Colombia had a body length of 0.37 millimetres (0.014 inches), while the Samoan moss spider (P. marplesi) could be as small as 0.4 millimetres (0.011 inches) long.