Antillocladius [SEP] parent taxon
Antillocladius
Antillocladius is a genus of midges belonging to the family Chironomidae, subfamily Orthocladiinae. The name "Antillocladius" means orthoclad (subfamily Orthocladiinae) that occurs in the Antilles, where it was primarily recorded.
Distribution.
The genus "Antillocladius" is distributed in the Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic (East Asia) and Indomalayan ecozones. The genus was erected by Sæther (1981) based on "A. antecalvus" Sæther, 1981, from the British West Indies: Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia. Subsequently, Sæther
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