Mastododera [SEP] parent taxon
Mastododera
Mastododera is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
- "Mastododera fallaciosa"
- "Mastododera jansoni"
- "Mastododera lateralis"
- "Mastododera monticola"
- "Mastododera nodicollis"
- "Mastododera rufosericans"
- "Mastododera tibialis"
- "Mastododera transversalis"
- "Mastododera velutina"
- "Mastododera vicina"
- "Mastododera villiersi"
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