Liposchema [SEP] parent taxon
Heterostegane
Heterostegane is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by George Hampson in 1893.
Species.
- "Heterostegane amputata"
- "Heterostegane auranticollis"
- "Heterostegane aurantiaca"
- "Heterostegane bifasciata"
- "Heterostegane boghensis"
- "Heterostegane circumrubrata"
- "Heterostegane constessellata"
- "Heterostegane elephantina"
- "Heterostegane felix"
- "Heterostegane flavata"
- "Heterostegane hyriaria"
- "Heterostegane incognita"
- "Heterostegane infusca"
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