title: Madagascarchaea gracilicollis
text: # 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.
  
  