Crypsimaga [SEP] parent taxon
Crypsimaga
Crypsimaga is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Crypsimaga cyanosceptra, which is found in New Guinea.
The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are blackish with an orange blotch occupying the posterior third of the cell, and adjoining a transverse spot beyond it, with interneural streaks beyond and above this but not reaching the margins, and a thicker streak above the fold beneath the discal blotch and transverse spot. There is a narrow terminal macular fascia of whitish suffusion. 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