Harpactorini [SEP] parent taxon
Harpactorini
Harpactorini is a tribe of the Harpactorinae (assassin bugs). This group is the most diverse of the entire assassin bug family, with 51 genera recognized in the Neotropical Region and 289 genera and 2003 species overall.
This tribe contains the only genera of the reduviidae with exaggerated modifications of the pronotum, such as the wheel bug (arilus) and the strongly raised and divided posterior pronotal lobe in "Ulpius" Stål, 1865.
Partial list of genera.
- "Abelamocoris"
- "Acanthischium
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