Holcocera [SEP] parent taxon
Holcocera
Holcocera is a gelechoid moth genus of the family Blastobasidae. There are about 70 described species.
Taxonomy.
The genera "Hypatopa" and "Calosima" are sometimes treated as synonyms of "Holcocera".
Taxonomy Species.
- "Holcocera aclydis"
- "Holcocera adjutrix"
- "Holcocera amicae"
- "Holcocera amicitiae"
- "Holcocera anomalella"
- "Holcocera arcae"
- "Holcocera audaciae"
- "Holcocera aurorae"
- "Holcocera basiplagata"
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