  We study the present evolutionary status of the binary system containing the
2.66 ms pulsar PSR J1417-4402 in a 5.4 day orbit. This is the pulsar in the
original source 3FGL J1417.5-4402, that has undergone a transition from X-ray
state to a pulsar state, just like some redbacks did. The system has many
characteristics similar to redback pulsars family, but is on a much wider
orbit. We show that close binary evolution including irradiation feedback
driven by the luminosity due to accretion onto the neutron star component of
the pair, and evaporation due to pulsar emission, is able to account for the
masses of the components and the photometric data of the donor star. The tracks
leading to the present PSR J1417-4402 are degenerate within a range of
parameters, suggesting that the {\it same} physics invoked to explain the
redback/black widows groups leads to the formation of much wider orbit systems,
outside the redback region limits.
