Uzi fly [SEP] parent taxon
Uzi fly
The Uzi fly ("Exorista sorbillans") is a species of bristly fly in the family Tachinidae that is a parasitoid of caterpillars and is a problem for silkworm rearing in tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia.
The species found in India, "Exorista bombycis" is sometimes synonmyised with this species, but is distinct from specimens obtained from the type locality, the Canary Islands.
Uzi flies are parasitic on lepidoptera larvae and can therefore be beneficial but are a problem for silkworm rearers. The life
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