Belongs within: Corvides.
Artamus, the woodswallows, is a genus of plump, highly aerial birds with long, pointed wings found in southern Asia and Australasia. The ashy woodswallow A. fuscus of southern Asia has a grey head and upperparts with pale underparts.
<==Artamus Vieillot 1816CC10 [incl. Leptopteryx Horsfield 1821B94, Ocypterus Cuvier 1816B94; Leptopterygidae, Ocypteridae]
| i. s.: A. fuscusJT12
| A. insignisJT12
| ‘Lanius’ leucogaster [=Ocypterus leucogaster]W66
| A. maximusJT12
| A. melanoleucusS13
| A. mentalisJT12
| A. monachusJT12
| A. papuensis [=Ocypterus papuensis]W66
| A. sordidusCH89
|--+--A. personatus (Gould 1841)BKB15, CC10 [=Ocypterus personatusCC10]
| `--A. superciliosus (Gould 1837)BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
`--+--+--*A. leucorynchus (Linnaeus 1771)CC10, BKB15, WS48 (see below for synonymy)
| | |--A. l. leucorynchusWS48
| | `--A. l. leucopygialis Gould 1842 [incl. A. leucorhynchus harterti Mathews 1912]WS48
| `--A. cyanopterus (Latham 1801)BKB15, WS48 (see below for synonymy)
`--+--A. cinereus Vieillot 1817BKB15, WS48
| |--A. c. cinereusWS48
| |--A. c. albiventris [incl. A. c. dealbatus, A. c. normani]M03
| |--A. c. melanops Gould 1865 [incl. A. tregallasi Mathews 1911]WS48
| `--A. c. venustus Sharpe 1878WS48
`--A. minor Vieillot 1817BKB15, WS48 [incl. A. minor derbyi Mathews 1912WS48]
Artamus cyanopterus (Latham 1801)BKB15, WS48 [=Loxia cyanopteraWS48; incl. Angroyan cyanopterus perthi Mathews 1915WS48, Artamus cyanopterus perthiM03]
*Artamus leucorynchus (Linnaeus 1771)CC10, BKB15, WS48 [=Lanius leucorhynchusCC10, Leptopteryx leucorhynchusW66; incl. L. dominicanusW66, L. manillensisW66]
Artamus superciliosus (Gould 1837)BKB15, CC10 [=Ocypterus superciliosusCC10; incl. Campbellornis superciliosus pallida Mathews 1916WS48]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.
[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.
[CH89] Cox, J. D., & A. G. Hamilton. 1889. A list of the birds of the Mudgee district, with notes on their habits, etc. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 4 (2): 395–424.
[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.
[M03] Morcombe, M. 2003. Field Guide to Australian Birds 2nd ed. Steve Parish Publishing.
[S13] Sarasin, F. 1913. Die Vögel Neu-Caledoniens und der Loyalty-Inseln. In: Sarasin, F., & J. Roux (eds) Nova Caledonia: Forschungen in Neu-Caledonian und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. A. Zoologie vol. 1 pt 1 pp. 1–78, pls 1–3. C. W. Kreidels Verlag: Wiesbaden.
[W66] Walden, A. 1866. Notes on birds collected in Tennasserim and in the Andaman Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 537–556.
[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.