Nudaria [SEP] parent taxon
Nudaria
Nudaria is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809.
Description.
Palpi minute and porrect (extending forward). Antennae with large swollen basal joint. Tibia with short spurs. Forewings with long cell, veins 9 and 11 present, with vein 5 often comes from middle of discocellulars in male, but curved, if present. Hindwings with vein 3 from before angle of cell, vein 5 from above angle, veins 6 and 7 on a long stalk and
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