Laniifera [SEP] parent taxon
Laniifera
Laniifera is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. It contains only one species, Laniifera cyclades, which is found in Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from Arizona and Florida.
The wingspan is about 40 mm. The forewings are fawn, but black at the base and clouded with blackish-grey from the middle almost to the outer margin, with a narrow waved black line, edged with greyish-white on the inner side, crossing the wing before the middle.
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