Paralucia [SEP] parent taxon
Paralucia
Paralucia is a genus of butterflies belonging to the family Lycaenidae. The caterpillars feed on "Bursaria" and sometimes "Pittosporum" species and co-habit with ants of the genera "Anonychomyrma" and "Notoncus".
Species.
The genus includes the following three species:
- Bright copper, "Paralucia aurifera"
- Fiery copper, "Paralucia pyrodiscus"
- Bathurst copper, "Paralucia spinifera"
External links.
- List of host plants for "Graphium macleayanus". Australian
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