Augustia is a genus of cave-dwelling leiodid beetle from Herzegovina in the subtribe Bathysciina. Its type and only species is Augustia weiratheri. The first specimens of Augustia weiratheri were collected by the biospeleologist Leo Weirather, from a cave in Čvrsnica that he nicknamed "Vuk jama".[1] Weirather obscured his collection localities using code names to guard them against less scrupulous collectors.[2] The species was described and named by Ricardo Zariquiey in 1927.[3] Augustia shares several characteristics with Henrotiella and Weiratheria, and is probably closely related to them.[4] Augustia weiratheri are 3 mm long and reddish.[5]

Augustia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Leiodidae
Subfamily: Cholevinae
Tribe: Leptodirini
Subtribe: Bathysciina
Genus: Augustia
Zariquiey, 1927
Type species
Augustia weiratheri
Zariquiey, 1927

References

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  1. ^ Pretner 2011, p. 209.
  2. ^ Pretner 2011, p. 85.
  3. ^ Zariquiey 1927, pp. 152–153.
  4. ^ Guéorguiev 2007, p. 81.
  5. ^ Zariquiey 1927, p. 153.

Works cited

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  • Guéorguiev, Borislav (2007). "Description of Ceuthophyes enormis nov. sp. from Albania, and notes on the morphology of Henrotiella eubeensis (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Leptodirini)". Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. 31: 75–82.
  • Pretner, Egon (2011). "Die Verdienste von Leo Weirather um die Biospeläologie, insbesondere Jugoslawiens, sein Höhlenkataster und seine Sammelplätze". Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck. 97: 85–234.
  • Zariquiey, R. (1927). "Nuevos Bathysciinae de los Balcanes (Col. Silphidae)". Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural: 152–158.