Cirrhicera [SEP] parent taxon
Cirrhicera
Cirrhicera is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
- "Cirrhicera basalis"
- "Cirrhicera championi"
- "Cirrhicera cinereola"
- "Cirrhicera conspicua"
- "Cirrhicera cristipennis"
- "Cirrhicera leuconota"
- "Cirrhicera longifrons"
- "Cirrhicera nigrina"
- "Cirrhicera niveosignata"
- "Cirrhicera panamensis"
- "Cirrhicera sallei"
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