Aegithalos

Aegithalos is a genus of passerine birds in the family Aegithalidae (bushtits), encompassing majority of the species in the family.

Aegithalos
Long-tailed tit (A. caudatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Aegithalidae
Genus: Aegithalos
Hermann, 1804
Type species
Pipra europaea[1] = Parus caudatus
Hermann, 1804
Species

10, see text

Synonyms

Orites G.R.Gray, 1841 (non Keyserling & Blasius, 1840: preoccupied; non Moehring, 1758: suppressed)

Taxonomy

The genus Aegithalos was introduced in 1804 by the French naturalist Johann Hermann to accommodate a single species, the long-tailed tit.[2][3] The genus name was a term used by Aristotle for some European tits, including the long-tailed tit.[4]

Species

The genus contains following ten species:[5]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Long-tailed titAegithalos caudatusnorthern Europe and the Palearctic, into boreal Scandinavia and south into the Mediterranean zone
Silver-throated bushtitAegithalos glaucogulariscentral and eastern China and south towards Yunnan
White-cheeked bushtitAegithalos leucogenysAfghanistan, Kashmir region, and Pakistan.
Black-throated bushtitAegithalos concinnusfoothills of the Himalayas, stretching across northern India through north-eastern Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, northern Myanmar, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
White-throated bushtitAegithalos niveogularisIndia, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Rufous-fronted bushtitAegithalos iouschistoseastern and central Himalayas in Bhutan, China, India and Nepal
Black-browed bushtitAegithalos bonvalotimid-southern China and far northern Burma.
Burmese bushtitAegithalos sharpeisouthwestern Myanmar.
Sooty bushtitAegithalos fuliginosuscentral China.
Pygmy bushtitAegithalos exilisIndonesia

Fossil record
  • Aegithalos gaspariki (Late Miocene of Polgardi, Hungary) [6]
  • Aegithalos congruis (Pliocene of Csarnota, Hungary) [6]

References
  1. "Aegithalidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. Hermann, Johann (1804). Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, aliaeque animalium species describuntur et illustrantur (in Latin). Argentorati [Strasbourg]: Amandum Koenig. p. 214.
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 52.
  4. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Bushtits, leaf warblers, reed warblers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  6. Kessler, E. 2013. Neogene songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary. – Hantkeniana, Budapest, 2013, 8: 37-149.


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