Parastenopa [SEP] parent taxon
Parastenopa
Parastenopa is a genus of fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. There are about 10 described species in "Parastenopa".
Species.
These 10 species belong to the genus "Parastenopa":
- "Parastenopa anastrephoides"
- "Parastenopa brasiliensis"
- "Parastenopa carinata"
- "Parastenopa elegans"
- "Parastenopa fallax"
- "Parastenopa guttata"
- "Parastenopa limata"
- "Parastenopa marcetiae"
- "Parastenopa montana"
- "Parastenopa ogloblini"
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