It doesn't (unless you've got some odd setup). Every issue in JIRA is an individual issue. If one is a subtask, it still is an issue, it just part of another issue as well.
So ABC-123 could easily have subtasks ABC-456, ABC-235 and ABC-321
Is that not what you are seeing?
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