''Augustaea'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

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of ant-like Singaporean

jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...

containing the single species, ''Augustaea formicaria''. It was first described by C. Szombathy in 1915, and is only found in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

. They are about long, and placed close to ''

Agorius ''Agorius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). The genera ''Agorius'' and ''Synagelides'' (and perhaps ''Pseudosynagelides'') are separated as a genus group, sometimes called subfamily Agoriinae but more recently do ...

''. Szombathy's drawings suggest that ''A. formicaria'' might belong to '' Orsima'', but no study has been published on it since its first description in 1915.

References

Monotypic Salticidae genera Salticidae Spiders of Asia {{Jumping-spider-stub