†Saperda florissantensis Wickham 1916 (longhorned beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Cerambycidae
Full reference: H. F. Wickham. 1916. New fossil Coleoptera from the Florissant beds. Bulletins from the Laboratory of Natural History of the State University of Iowa 7(3):3-20
Belongs to Saperda according to F. Vitali 2015
See also Linsley 1942 and Wickham 1916
Sister taxa: Saperda caroli, Saperda densipunctata, Saperda lata, Saperda robusta
Type specimen: USNM 90579, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (Wilson coll), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (Wilson coll)
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