Trychnopalpa [SEP] parent taxon
Trychnopalpa
Trychnopalpa is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. The only member of the genus was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913, and it was separated by A. J. T. Janse in his 1958 "The Moths of South Africa". Povolny gave the same member of this genus the now synonymised generic name "Synthesiopalpa". The genus contains only one species, Trychnopalpa fornacaria, which is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are brown, with the markings dark grey or
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