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Lamingtonium
	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
Type species
	Lamingtonium binnaburrense; Gupta & Crowson, 1969
Species
	Lamingtonium binnaburrense Gupta & Crowson, 1969 ; Lamingtonium loebli Lawrence & Leschen, 2003 ; Lamingtonium thayerae Lawrence & Leschen, 2003 ;

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

^ ^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.
^ "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.)
^ ^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