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Aethomyias
Genus of birds in the family Acanthizidae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aethomyias is a genus of passerine birds in the family Acanthizidae that are endemic to New Guinea.
Aethomyias | |
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Grey-green scrubwren, Aethomyias arfakianus by William Matthew Hart | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Acanthizidae |
Genus: | Aethomyias Sharpe, 1879 |
Type species | |
Entomophila spliodera Gray, G.R., 1859 |
A molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens and mouse-warblers published in 2018 led to a substantial revision of the taxonomic classification. In the reorganisation the genus Aethomyias was resurrected to bring together a group of scrubwrens that had previously been placed in the genera Sericornis and Crateroscelis.[1][2] The genus Aethomyias had originally been introduced by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1879 to accommodate a single species, Entomophila spliodera G.R. Gray 1859, the pale-billed scrubwren, which is therefore the type species.[3][4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek aēthēs "unusual" or "change" with the Modern Latin myias meaning "flycatcher".[5]