Syncratomorpha [SEP] parent taxon
Syncratomorpha
Syncratomorpha is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Syncratomorpha euthetodes, which is found in India (the Andamans).
The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are ochreous-white, the dorsal area thinly speckled dark fuscous with a broad irregular black median stripe from the base (where it reaches the costa) to near the apex. There is a short mark of fuscous irroration on the costa in the middle and the costal edge is black towards the apex. There
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