Pentila [SEP] parent taxon
Pentila
Pentila is a genus of butterflies, commonly called pentilas or buffs, in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are endemic to the Afrotropics. For other butterflies called buffs, see genus "Baliochila".
Species.
Listed alphabetically:
- "Pentila abraxas"
- "Pentila alba"
- "Pentila amenaida"
- "Pentila amenaidoides"
- "Pentila auga"
- "Pentila bennetti"
- "Pentila bitje"
- "Pentila camerunica"
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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