Lamingtonium
| Lamingtonium | |
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| Specimen of Lamingtonium loebli | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Cucujoidea |
| Family: | Lamingtoniidae Gupta & Crowson, 1969 |
| Genus: | Lamingtonium Gupta & Crowson, 1969[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lamingtonium binnaburrense Gupta & Crowson, 1969
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| Species[2][3][4] | |
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Lamingtonium is the only genus in the family Lamingtoniidae, of the beetle superfamily Cucujoidea. It contains three species endemic to Australia.[3][4] The holotype of the type species was collected on at Lamington National Park, Binna Burra, Queensland under the bark of a dead tree.[1] The adults and larvae of two species have been found associated with basidiocarps of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae.[4]
References
Wikispecies has information related to Lamingtoniidae.
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- ^ "Lamingtonium". BioLib.
- ^ a b Lawrence, J. F., and Leschen, R. A. B. (2003). Review of Lamingtoniidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) with descriptions of two new species. In ‘Systematics of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the Retirement of Ivan Löbl’. (Eds G. Cuccodoro and R. A. B. Leschen.) pp 905–919. (International Associated Publishers, Memoirs on Entomology, International, Volume 17.) (Associated Publishers: Gainesville, FL, USA.)
- ^ ISBN 978-3-11-019075-5, retrieved 2022-10-02