Augustaea

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Augustaea formicaria

| authority = Szombathy, 1915

| parent_authority = Szombathy, 1915

}}

Augustaea is a monotypic genus of ant-like Singaporean jumping spiders containing the single species, Augustaea formicaria. It was first described by C. Szombathy in 1915,{{cite journal| last=Szombathy| first=C.| year=1915| title=Attides nouveaux appartenant aux collections du Musée National Hongrois| journal=Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici| pages=468–490 [478]| volume=13|url=http://publication.nhmus.hu/annales/cikkreszletes.php?idhoz=327}} and is only found in Singapore.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Augustaea Szombathy, 1915| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2524| doi=10.24436/2}} They are about {{convert|6|mm}} long, and placed close to Agorius.

Szombathy's drawings suggest that A. formicaria might belong to Orsima,{{cite book| last1=Murphy| first1=F.| last2=Murphy| first2=J.| year=2000| title=An introduction to the spiders of South East Asia with notes on all the genera| publisher=Malaysian Nature Society Kuala Lumpur| page=270}} but no study has been published on it since its first description in 1915.

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Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera

Category:Salticidae

Category:Spiders of Asia

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