Prothysana [SEP] parent taxon
Prothysana
Prothysana is a genus of moths of the family Bombycidae. It contains two species, whose larvae are known as shag-carpet caterpillars. They are found from Mexico, south to Panama and into South America, at least to Ecuador.
Taxonomy.
Vitor Osmar Becker included "Compsa" , "Mesotages" , "Tarchon" and "Zolessia" as new synonyms of "Prothysana" in 2001, and placed "Compsa saturata" and "Mimallo trilunula" as synonyms of "Prothysana terminalis" in 2001
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