Eretmocera [SEP] parent taxon
Eretmocera
Eretmocera is a genus of moth in the family Scythrididae.
Species.
- "Eretmocera agassizi"
- "Eretmocera albistriata"
- "Eretmocera alenica"
- "Eretmocera arabica"
- "Eretmocera aurovittata" (from the Bismarck islands)
- "Eretmocera basistrigata"
- "Eretmocera benitonis"
- "Eretmocera bradleyi"
- "Eretmocera chrysias" (from Australia)
- "Eretmocera contermina"
- "Eretmocera coracopis" (from Australia)
- "Eretmocera
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