Astictopterus [SEP] parent taxon
Astictopterus
Astictopterus is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.There are two species groups, one Afrotropical, the other Indomalayan.
Species.
- "Astictopterus abjecta" – abject hopper
- "Astictopterus anomoeus" – yellow hopper
- "Astictopterus bruno"
- "Astictopterus inornatus" – modest sylph
- "Astictopterus jama" – forest hopper
- "Astictopterus punctulata"
- "Astictopterus stellata" – spotted sylph or fairy
- "Astictopterus tura"
Biology.
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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