Parisolabis [SEP] parent taxon
Parisolabis
Parisolabis is a genus of earwigs in the subfamily Parisolabiinae. It was cited by Srivastava in "Part 2" of "Fauna of India". It was also cited at an earlier date by Steinmann in his publication, "The Animal Kingdom" in 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1993.
External links.
- The Earwig Research Centre's "Parisolabis" database "Source for references:" type Parisolabis in the "genus" field and click "search".
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