Metisella [SEP] parent taxon
Metisella
Metisella is a genus of skippers, commonly called sylphs, in the family Hesperiidae found in Africa. For other sylphs see genera "Astictopterus" and "Tsitana".
Species.
- "Metisella abdeli"
- "Metisella aegipan" – mountain sylph
- "Metisella alticola"
- "Metisella angolana"
- "Metisella carsoni"
- "Metisella congdoni"
- "Metisella decipiens"
- "Metisella formosus" – beautiful sylph
- "Metisella kakamega" – Kakamega sylph
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