Doridostoma [SEP] parent taxon
Doridostoma
Doridostoma is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.
Species.
- "Doridostoma denotata"
- "Doridostoma stenomorpha"
- "Doridostoma symplecta"
See also.
- List of Tortricidae genera
References.
- , 2013: An illustrated catalogue of the specimens of Tortricidae in the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). "Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia" 41 (162): 213-240.
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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