Neuranethes [SEP] parent taxon
Neuranethes
Neuranethes is a small genus of herbivorous African moths in the family Noctuidae.
Species include:
- "Neuranethes angola" Bethune-Baker 1911
- "Neuranethes avitta" Fawcett 1917
- "Neuranethes spodopterodes" Hampson 1908
References.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
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