''Lamingtonium'' is the only genus in the family Lamingtoniidae, of the beetle superfamily

Cucujoidea Cucujoidea is a superfamily of beetles. This group formerly included all of the families now included in the superfamily Coccinelloidea. They include some fungus beetles and a diversity of lineages of "bark beetles" unrelated to the "true" bark ...

. It contains three species endemic to Australia.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.) The

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of seve ...

of the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specim ...

was collected on at

Lamington National Park The Lamington National Park is a national park, lying on the Lamington Plateau of the McPherson Range on the Queensland/New South Wales border in Australia. From Southport on the Gold Coast the park is to the southwest and Brisbane is north. ...

Binna Burra, Queensland Binna Burra is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. It borders New South Wales. In the , Binna Burra had a population of 4 people. Geography The locality is a long thin valley bounded by the ridge of the Darlin ...

under the bark of a dead tree. The adults and larvae of two species have been found associated with

basidiocarps In fungi, a basidiocarp, basidiome, or basidioma () is the sporocarp of a basidiomycete, the multicellular structure on which the spore-producing hymenium is borne. Basidiocarps are characteristic of the hymenomycetes; rusts and smuts do not ...

of fungi belonging to the family

Polyporaceae The Polyporaceae are a family of poroid fungi belonging to the Basidiomycota. The flesh of their fruit bodies varies from soft (as in the case of the dryad's saddle illustrated) to very tough. Most members of this family have their hymenium ...

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