Sabalia [SEP] parent taxon
Sabalia
Sabalia is a genus of moths in the family Brahmaeidae (older classifications placed it in Lemoniidae).
Selected species.
- "Sabalia barnsi"
- "Sabalia fulleborni"
- "Sabalia fulvicincta"
- "Sabalia jacksoni"
- "Sabalia picarina" (="Sabalia euterpe" )
- "Sabalia sericaria"
- "Sabalia thalia"
- "Sabalia tippelskirchi" (="Sabalia tippelscirchi")
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