Sophophora [SEP] parent taxon
Sophophora
The paraphyletic subgenus Sophophora of the genus "Drosophila" was first described by Alfred Sturtevant in 1939. It contains the best-known drosophilid species, "Drosophila melanogaster". "Sophophora" translates as carrier ("phora") of wisdom ("sophos"). The subgenus is paraphyletic because the genus "Lordiphosa" and the species "Hirtodrosophila duncani" are also placed within this subgenus.
Phylogeny.
Currently, 10 species groups are recognized, in two main groups, the New World and the
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