''Alloterocucus'' is an extinct genus of beetle. It is known from a single species, ''Alloterocucus atratus'', known from the mid

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...

(latest Albian-earliest

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

) Burmese amber of Myanmar. It belongs to the clade Cucujiformia, probably

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 ...

, and is not assigned to any family. Cladistic analysis suggests that it is closely related to

Cyclaxyridae Cyclaxyridae are a family of beetles in the superfamily Cucujoidea. The only living genus is ''Cyclaxyra'', with two species endemic to New Zealand. Other species have been named from fossils. They are also known as sooty mould beetles due to the ...

(sooty mold beetles), Tasmosalpingidae, and

Lamingtoniidae ''Lamingtonium'' is the only genus in the family Lamingtoniidae, of the beetle superfamily Cucujoidea. It contains three species endemic to Australia.Lawrence, J. F., and Leschen, R. A. B. (2003). Review of Lamingtoniidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea ...

, and is possibly most closely related to Lamingtoniidae.

References

Fossils of Myanmar Fossil taxa described in 2022 Cucujoidea Cucujoidea genera Cretaceous Asia Fossil beetle genera {{Cucujoidea-stub