Eumaea [SEP] parent taxon
Eumaeus (genus)
Eumaeus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Selected species.
- "Eumaeus atala" – Atala – Bahamas, Cuba, Isla de Juventud
- "Eumaeus toxea" – Mexican cycadian – eastern and western Mexico to Nicaragua (southern Texas as very rare stray)
- "Eumaeus childrenae" – great cycadian – [= debora], eastern and southern Mexico to Honduras
- "Eumaeus godartii" – white-tipped cycadian – Nicaragua to western Ecuador
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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