Aethomyias Explained

Aethomyias is a genus of passerine birds in the family Acanthizidae that are endemic to New Guinea.

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 Latin: myias meaning "flycatcher".^[5]

Species

The genus contains six species:^[2]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
		Aethomyias nigrorufus	New Guinea
		Aethomyias spilodera	New Guinea
		Aethomyias rufescens	West Papua, Indonesia
		Aethomyias perspicillatus	New Guinea
		Aethomyias papuensis	New Guinea
		Aethomyias arfakianus	New Guinea

Notes and References

1. Norman . J.A. . Christidis . L. . Schodde . R. . 2018 . Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae) . Organisms Diversity & Evolution . 18 . 2 . 241–259 . 10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8 . 46967802 .
2. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers . World Bird List Version 9.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 21 January 2019 .
3. Book: Sharpe . R. Bowdler . Richard Bowdler Sharpe . 1879 . Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 1 . 4 . Trustees of the British Museum . London . 271 . Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum .
4. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Cottrell . G. William . 1986 . Check-list of Birds of the World . 11 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 414 .
5. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 35 .