Arthroteles [SEP] parent taxon
Arthroteles
Arthroteles is a genus of snipe fly of the family Rhagionidae. Species of "Arthroteles" are moderately sized, from 5 to 7.5 mm. They are gray to dark gray in colour. Their antenna bears seven to eight tapering flagellomeres, the first much larger than all others.
They are only known from South Africa.
Species.
- "A. bombyliiformis"
- "A. cinerea"
- "A. longipalpis"
- "A. orophila"
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