Apachyus [SEP] parent taxon
Apachyus
Apachyus is a genus of earwigs, in the family Apachyidae. It is one of only two genera in Apachyidae. It has been cited by Henrik Steinmann in his book, "The Animal Kingdom," by G. K. Srivastava in "Fauna of India," Part II, and by Chen & Ma in "Fauna Sinica".
External links.
- The Earwig Research Centre's "Apachyus" database "Instructions:" type Apachyus 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