Madagascarchaea gracilicollis
# Madagascarchaea gracilicollis

Madagascarchaea gracilicollis is a member of the family Archaeidae, assassin spiders. It is merely 2 mm long and catches other spiders with venomous fangs at the end of its hugely elongated jaws (chelicerae).

These animals normally run upside down.

## Etymology

From Latin gracilis "slender" and collum "neck".

## Distribution

This species is endemic to Madagascar.

