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Belongs within: Acanthizidae.
Acanthiza, the thornbills, is an Australasian genus of small birds with a thin, moderately long beak and commonly with olive or grey upperparts and pale underparts. The striated thornbill A. lineata exhibits relatively heavy dark streaking on the head and breast (Morcombe 2003).
<==Acanthiza Vigors & Horsfield 1825CC10
| i. s.: A. cinereaOF19
|--+--A. lineataBKB15
| `--+--A. murinaBKB15
| `--A. nanaBKB15
`--+--A. chrysorrhoa (Quoy & Gaimard 1830)BKB15, WS48 [=Saxicola chrysorrhoaWS48]
| |--A. c. chrysorrhoaWS48
| |--A. c. alexanderi (Mathews 1921) [=Geobasileus chrysorrhous alexanderi, A. pallida Milligan 1903 (preoc.)]WS48
| |--A. c. ferdinandi (Mathews 1916) [=Geobasileus chrysorrhous ferdinandi]WS48
| `--A. c. multi Mathews 1912WS48
`--+--+--A. apicalisBKB15
| `--+--A. ewingii Gould 1844BKB15, PB96
| `--+--A. katherinaBKB15
| `--A. pusilla (Shaw 1790)BKB15, WS48 [=Motacilla pusillaWS48]
| |--A. p. pusillaWS48
| |--A. p. apicalis Gould 1847 [incl. A. pusilla dundasi Mathews 1922]WS48
| |--A. p. archbaldiM03
| |--A. p. dawsonensisM03
| |--A. p. diemenensisM03
| |--A. p. leeuwinensis Campbell 1922 [incl. A. pusilla northi Mathews 1922]WS48
| |--A. p. whitlocki North 1909 (see below for synonymy)WS48
| `--A. p. zietziM03
`--+--+--A. iredalei Mathews 1911BKB15, WS48
| | |--A. i. iredalei (see below for synonymy)WS48
| | |--A. i. hedleyiM03
| | `--A. i. rosinaeM03
| `--A. robustirostris Milligan 1903BKB15, WS48 [incl. Milligania robustirostris liberia Mathews 1916WS48]
`--+--A. uropygialis Gould 1838BKB15, WS48
| |--A. u. uropygialis (see below for synonymy)WS48
| `--A. u. augusta Mathews 1912 [incl. A. uropygialis murchisoni Mathews 1912]WS48
`--+--A. inornata Gould 1840BKB15, WS48
| |--A. i. inornata [incl. A. inornata submastersi Mathews 1912]WS48
| `--A. i. mastersi North 1901WS48
`--A. reguloidesBKB15
|--A. r. reguloidesM03
`--A. r. squamataM03
Acanthiza iredalei iredalei Mathews 1911 [incl. A. inornata carnarvoni Mathews 1913, Geobasileus tenuirostris uranie Campbell 1925]WS48
Acanthiza pusilla whitlocki North 1909 [incl. A. pusilla nullarborensis White 1922, A. pusilla peroni Mathews 1918]WS48
Acanthiza uropygialis uropygialis Gould 1838 [incl. Geobasilieus uropygialis moora Campbell 1922, A. uropygialis nea Mathews 1912]WS48
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.
[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.
[M03] Morcombe, M. 2003. Field Guide to Australian Birds 2nd ed. Steve Parish Publishing.
[OF19] Oliveros, C. H., D. J. Field, D. T. Ksepka, F. K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M. J. Andersen, P. Alström, B. W. Benz, E. L. Braun, M. J. Braun, G. A. Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, R. T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A. M. Cuervo, E. P. Derryberry, T. C. Glenn, M. G. Harvey, P. A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. T. Kimball, A. L. Mack, C. M. Miskelly, A. T. Peterson, M. B. Robbins, F. H. Sheldon, L. F. Silveira, B. T. Smith, N. D. White, R. G. Moyle & B. C. Faircloth. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 116 (16): 7916–7925.
[PB96] Palma, R. L., & S. C. Barker. 1996. Phthiraptera. In: Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 26. Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera pp. 81–247. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
[WS48] Whittell, H. M., & D. L. Serventy. 1948. A systematic list of the birds of Western Australia. Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Special Publication 1: 1–126.