Tischeria [SEP] parent taxon
Tischeria
Tischeria is a genus of moths in the family Tischeriidae. The genus "Coptotriche" was long treated as a synonym of "Tischeria", but is now considered distinct.
Selected species.
- "Tischeria ambigua"
- "Tischeria antilope"
- "Tischeria bifurcata"
- "Tischeria ceanothi"
- "Tischeria decidua"
- "Tischeria deliquescens"
- "Tischeria dodonaea"
- "Tischeria ekebladella"
- "Tischeria ekebladioides"
- "Tischeria elongata"
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