Hobartiidae

Hobartiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Hobartiidae; Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966

Hobartiidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea.^[1]^[2] There are only two known genera, Hobartius (Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966) and Hydnobioides (Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1966), with six species, five of which are native to Australia, and one species of Hobartius native to Chile and Argentina in South America. Members of the family are mycophagous, living in rotten, fungus infested logs of Araucaria, Nothofagus, and Eucalyptus, where they feed on the fruiting bodies of basidiomycetes.^[3]

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↑ Tomaszewska, Wioletta; Ślipinśki, Adam (2010-12-31), "10.9. Hobartiidae Sen Gupta and Crowson, 1966", in Kükenthal, Willy; Leschen, Richard A.B.; Beutel, Rolf G.; Lawrence, John F. (eds.), Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 2, Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), DE GRUYTER, pp. 324–327, doi:10.1515/9783110911213.324, ISBN 978-3-11-019075-5, retrieved 2022-10-02

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[3] Tomaszewska, Wioletta; Ślipinśki, Adam (2010-12-31), "10.9. Hobartiidae Sen Gupta and Crowson, 1966", in Kükenthal, Willy; Leschen, Richard A.B.; Beutel, Rolf G.; Lawrence, John F. (eds.), Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 2, Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), DE GRUYTER, pp. 324–327, doi:10.1515/9783110911213.324, ISBN 978-3-11-019075-5, retrieved 2022-10-02

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