Qiniella [SEP] parent taxon
Qiniella
Qiniella is a genus of non-biting midges in the diptera subfamily Orthocladiinae of the family Chironomidae.
The genus Qiniella was first described by Xinhua Wang & Ole A. Sæther in 1998 for a single species, "Q. lii", recorded from China. Posteriorly, Mendes and Andersen described two additional species, "Q. copa" and "Q. thai", from Malaysia and Thailand respectively.
Only the male adults are known, but "Q. copa" was collected high in the tree canopies in Malaysia,
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