Tasmosalpingus
{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Tasmosalpingus.png
| image_upright = 1.2
| image_caption = Tasmosalpingus quadrispilotus
| display_parents = 4
| parent_authority = Lawrence and Britton, 1991
| taxon = Tasmosalpingus
| authority = Lea, 1919
}}
Tasmosalpingus is the only genus in the beetle family Tasmosalpingidae (superfamily Cucujoidea). There are two species in Tasmosalpingus, found in Australia in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales.{{Cite journal |last=Liu |first=Zhenhua |last2=Porch |first2=Nicholas |last3=Ślipiński |first3=Adam |date=2023-06-09 |title=Review of the Australian endemic genus Tasmosalpingus Lea, 1919 (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea, Tasmosalpingidae) |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5301.2.9 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=5301 |issue=2 |pages=292–300 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5301.2.9 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }} Adults have been collected using malaise traps, while a possible larval specimen was found under the bark of the podocarp Phyllocladus aspleniifolius. Gut contents indicate that they are mycophagous, feeding on fungal hyphae.{{Citation |last=Lawrence |first=John F. |title=10.23. Tasmosalpingidae Lawrence and Britton, 1991 |date=2010-12-31 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110911213.381/html |work=Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 2, Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim) |pages=381–383 |editor-last=Kükenthal |editor-first=Willy |publisher=DE GRUYTER |doi=10.1515/9783110911213.381 |isbn=978-3-11-019075-5 |access-date=2022-10-02 |last2=Ślipinśki |first2=Adam |editor2-last=Leschen |editor2-first=Richard A.B. |editor3-last=Beutel |editor3-first=Rolf G. |editor4-last=Lawrence |editor4-first=John F.|url-access=subscription }}
Species
References
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{{Cite web| title=Tasmosalpingus
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4736080
| website=GBIF
| accessdate=2019-01-19
}}
{{Cite journal
| title = Classification of basal Cucujoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga): cladistic analysis, keys and review of new families
| date = 2005
| last1 = Leschen | first1 = R.A.B.
| last2 = Lawrence | first2 = J.F.
| last3 = Ślipiński | first3 = S.A.
| url = http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS04007
| journal = Invertebrate Systematics
| volume = 19| issue = 1
| pages = 17
| doi = 10.1071/IS04007
| url-access = subscription
}}
{{Cite journal
| title = Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
| date = 2011
| last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice
| last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves
| last3 = Davies | first3 = Anthony E.
| last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A.
| last5 = Lawrence | first5 = John F.
| last6 = Lyal | first6 = Chris H. C.
| last7 = Newton | first7 = Alfred F.
| last8 = Reid | first8 = Chris A. M.
| last9 = Schmitt | first9 = Michael
| last10 = Ślipiński | first10 = S. Adam
| last11 = Smith | first11 = Andrew B. T.
| display-authors = 4
| url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4001
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 88
| pages = 1–972
| issn = 1313-2989
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.88.807| pmid = 21594053
| pmc = 3088472
| doi-access = free
}}
{{Cite book
| title = Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys
| doi = 10.1111/syen.12104
| first1 = J.F.| last1 = Lawrence
| first2 = A.| last2 = Slipinski
| year = 2013
| isbn = 978-0-643-09728-5
| publisher = Csiro Publishing
}}
}}
{{Coleoptera|4}}
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Category:Endemic fauna of Australia
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