Nystaleinae [SEP] parent taxon
Nystaleinae
Nystaleinae is a subfamily of the moth family Notodontidae. The subfamily was described by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes in 1948.
Diversity.
The subfamily Nystaleinae contains approximately 300 species.
Distribution.
The subfamily is restricted almost entirely to the Neotropics, with a few species extending as far north as Canada.
References.
- ; 2010: Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. "ZooKeys", 40: 1-239.
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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