†Sigaretta florissantella Cockerell 1906 (water boatman)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Corixidae
Alternative combination: Corixa florissantella
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1906. A fossil water-bug. The Canadian Entomologist 38:209
Belongs to Sigaretta according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1993
See also Cockerell 1906 and Popov 1971
Sister taxon: Sigarella tenuis
Type specimen: UCM-1665F, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is First railroad cutting east of Florissant, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at First railroad cutting east of Florissant
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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