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]
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Scientific classification 
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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
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References
edit- ^ Pretner 2011, p. 209.
- ^ Pretner 2011, p. 85.
- ^ Zariquiey 1927, pp. 152–153.
- ^ Guéorguiev 2007, p. 81.
- ^ Zariquiey 1927, p. 153.
Works cited
edit- 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.