Loxmaionia [SEP] parent taxon
Loxmaionia
Loxmaionia is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. It contains only one species, Loxmaionia megale, which is found in Costa Rica.
The wingspan is about 49 mm. The forewings are dark greyish brown with interrupted basal and antemedial whitish lines. There is a small white spot in the cell medially and a similar short streak below the cell, as well as an oblique whitish line on the discocellular and an interrupted line below it to the inner margin. The hindwings are semihyaline white with a fuscous
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