New Ireland yellow tiger [SEP] parent taxon
New Ireland yellow tiger
The New Ireland yellow tiger ("Parantica clinias") is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
References.
- Lepidoptera Specialist Group 1996. Parantica clinias. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.  Downloaded on 31 July 2007.
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