Lamingtonium | |
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Specimen of Lamingtonium loebli | |
Scientific 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
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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]