Oxylechia [SEP] parent taxon
Oxylechia
Oxylechia is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Oxylechia confirmata, which is found in Colombia.
The wingspan is about 8 mm. The forewings are white, tinged with ochreous-yellowish in the disc, more strongly and sprinkled with fuscous posteriorly. The markings are dark fuscous, with some black scales on their edges, and margined with clear white. There is a basal patch, the edge running from one-fourth of the costa, straight, oblique. There is
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