Macrocirca [SEP] parent taxon
Macrocirca
Macrocirca is a genus of moths in the family Depressariidae. It contains only one species, Macrocirca strabo, which is found in Argentina.
The wingspan is 38–48 mm. The forewings are whitish irregularly irrorated with dark grey, the veins appearing as darker streaks. There is a fine black dash in the cell before the middle, surrounded by a pale area. And there is a transverse blackish line on the end of the cell (indicating the second discal), also surrounded by whitish, before, between
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