A genetic lineage can be contrasted with an evolutionary lineage in that a genetic lineage applies to a locus.

However, the mancallines were a very distinct and unique evolutionary lineage and are thus usually retained as a subfamily.

Recent molecular phylogenetic evidence has shown that they belong to a unique evolutionary lineage.

Conventional accounts of evolutionary lineage present themselves as the simple branching out of species into novel forms.

The cribellates are split off as a separate taxon that retained the primitive feature, which makes the lineage paraphyletic and not synonymous with any real evolutionary lineage.