Polyommatini [SEP] parent taxon
Polyommatini
Polyommatini is a tribe of lycaenid butterflies in the subfamily of Polyommatinae. These were extensively studied by Russian novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov.
Genera.
Genera in this tribe are:
Genera Doubtful Polyommatini.
Several genera of Polyommatinae have been allied with Polyommatini, especially "Polyommatus". Their placement in the present tribe requires confirmation however:
Other such doubtful Polyommatini may even be more distant altogether. "Lepidochrysops", "Paralycaeides" and "Prosotas" are sometimes placed here, but might belong elsewhere in
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of