''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
Čvrsnica ( sr-cyrl, Чврсница, ) is a mountain in the Dinarides of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in northern Herzegovina. Most of the mountain is located in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton municipalities of Mostar and Jablanica, while th ...
that he nicknamed "Vuk jama". Weirather obscured his collection localities using code names in order to guard them from less scrupulous collectors. The species was described and named by Ricardo Zariquiey in 1927. ''Augustia'' shares several characteristics with ''
Henrotiella'' and ''
Weiratheria'', and is probably closely related to them. ''Augustia weiratheri'' are 3 mm long and reddish.
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Beetles of Europe
Cave beetles
Endemic fauna of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leiodidae
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