Prostomeus [SEP] parent taxon
Prostomeus
Prostomeus is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains only one species, Prostomeus brunneus, which is found in Cuba and the south-eastern United States, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and North Carolina.
Description.
The wingspan is 15-15.5 mm. The forewings are light straw colored, overlaid with reddish brown and with the base dark purplish brown. There is a dark purplish brown oblong narrow patch along the middle of the costa from the basal
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