Staphida Explained

Staphida is a genus of passerine birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

Taxonomy

These species were formerly placed in the genus Yuhina. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2019 found that Yuhina was not monophyletic.^[1] To create monophyletic genera these three species were moved to the resurrected genus Staphida that had originally been introduced in 1871 to accommodate the Indochinese yuhina by the English naturalist Robert Swinhoe in John Gould's The Birds of Asia.^[2] ^[3]

The genus contains the following three species:^[3]

Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
Striated yuhina	Staphida castaniceps	Himalayas to north-western Thailand
	Staphida torqueola	Himalayas to north-western Thailand
	Staphida everetti	Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia

References

Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions.

Notes and References

Cai . T. . Cibois . A. . Alström . P. . Moyle . R.G. . Kennedy . J.D. . Shao . S. . Zhang . R. . Irestedt . M. . Ericson . P.G.P. . Gelang . M. . Qu . Y. . Lei . F. . Fjeldså . J. . 2019 . Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 130 . 346–356 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010 . 30321696 . free .
Book: Gould, John . John Gould . 1860 . The Birds of Asia . 4 . Staphida torqueola . self . London . Part 23, Plate 8 and text . https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39021912 .
Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . August 2022 . Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes . IOC World Bird List Version 12.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 20 September 2022 .