Rhopalus [SEP] parent taxon
Rhopalus
Rhopalus is a genus of true bugs in the family Rhopalidae, the scentless plant bugs.
Species.
- "Rhopalus conspersus"
- "Rhopalus distinctus"
- "Rhopalus lepidus"
- "Rhopalus maculatus"
- "Rhopalus parumpunctatus"
- "Rhopalus rufus"
- "Rhopalus subrufus"
Species Formerly listed as "Rhopalus".
- "Rhopalus tigrinus" reclassified as "Brachycarenus tigrinus"
External links.
- Biolib
- "Rhopalus" Schilling 1827 Fauna Europaea
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