Belongs within: Corvides.
Contains: Lalage leucomela, Lalage maculosa.
Lalage, the trillers, is a genus of small insectivorous birds, found in southern Asia and Australasia, that are commonly patterned in black, grey and white. A number of larger grey species historically included in the genus Coracina have recently been transferred to Lalage on the basis of molecular analyses.
<==Lalage Boie 1826 [incl. Diaphoropterus Oberholser 1899, Symmorphus Gould 1838 non Wesmael 1836]CC10
| i. s.: L. aureaJT12
| L. banksianaS13
| L. conjuncta Rothschild & Hartert 1924AP21, L03 [=L. leucomela conjunctaL03]
| L. moestaJT12
| ‘Diaphoropterus’ naeviusS13
| |--D. n. naeviusS13
| `--D. n. simillimus Sarasin 1913S13
|--+--+--L. atrovirensBKB15
| | `--L. leucomelaBKB15
| `--+--L. maculosaBKB15
| `--+--L. sharpei Rothschild 1900BKB15, L03
| | |--L. s. sharpeiL03
| | `--L. s. tenebrosa Mayr & Ripley 1941L03
| `--+--L. tricolor (Swainson 1825)BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
| `--+--L. leucopyga (Gould 1838)BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
| | |--L. l. leucopygaL03
| | |--L. l. albiloris Mayr & Ripley 1941L03
| | `--L. l. deficiens Mayr & Ripley 1941L03
| `--L. sueurii (Vieillot 1818)BKB15, WS48 [=Turdus sueuriiWS48]
`--+--L. melanoleucaBKB15
`--+--L. leucopygialisBKB15
`--+--L. nigraBKB15 [incl. Turdus orientalisCC10, *L. orientalisCC10]
`--+--+--L. newtoniAP21 [=Coracina newtoniBKB15]
| `--L. typicaAP21 [=Coracina typicaBKB15]
`--+--L. melanopteraAP21 [=Coracina melanopteraBKB15]
`--+--L. fimbriataAP21 [=Coracina fimbriataBKB15]
`--+--L. melaschistosAP21 [=Coracina melaschistosBKB15]
`--L. poliopteraAP21 [=Coracina poliopteraBKB15]
Lalage leucopyga (Gould 1838)BKB15, CC10 [=*Symmorphus leucopygusCC10, *Diaphoropterus leucopygusCC10, Lalage naevia leucopygaCC10; incl. Campephaga longicaudata Pelzeln 1860CC10]
Lalage tricolor (Swainson 1825)BKB15, L03 [=Ceblepyris tricolorCC10, L. sueurii tricolorWS48; incl. Campephaga humeralisCH89, L. tricolor indistincta Mathews 1912L03, Karua leucomela mayi Ashby 1914L03]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[AP21] Arlott, N., & B. van Perlo. 2021. Collins Birds of the World. William Collins.
[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.
[L03] LeCroy, M. 2003. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 5. Passeriformes: Alaudidae, Hirundinidae, Motacillidae, Campephagidae, Pycnonotidae, Irenidae, Laniidae, Vangidae, Bombycillidae, Dulidae, Cinclidae, Troglodytidae, and Mimidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278: 1–156.
[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.
[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.