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]

Lamingtonium
Specimen of Lamingtonium loebli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Species[2][3][4]
  • Lamingtonium binnaburrense Gupta & Crowson, 1969
  • Lamingtonium loebli Lawrence & Leschen, 2003
  • Lamingtonium thayerae Lawrence & Leschen, 2003

References

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  1. ^ a b Gupta, T. Sen; Crowson, R. A. (1969). "On a new family of Clavicornia (Coleoptera) and a new genus of Languriidae". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy. 38 (9–10): 125–131. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1969.tb00245.x.
  2. ^ "Lamingtonium". BioLib.
  3. ^ 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.)
  4. ^ a b c Lawrence, John F.; Leschen, Richard A. B. (2010-12-31), Kükenthal, Willy; Leschen, Richard A.B.; Beutel, Rolf G.; Lawrence, John F. (eds.), "10.18. Lamingtoniidae Sen Gupta and Crowson, 1969", Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 2, Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), DE GRUYTER, pp. 360–363, doi:10.1515/9783110911213.360, ISBN 978-3-11-019075-5, retrieved 2022-10-02