Lamingtonium

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. The holotype of the type species was collected on at Lamington National Park, Binna Burra, Queensland under the bark of a dead tree. The adults and larvae of two species have been found associated with basidiocarps of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae.