Monarcha

Belongs within: Monarchidae.

Monarcha is a genus of monarch flycatchers found in Australasia, commonly with dark upperparts and rufous underparts. The Chuuk monarch Metabolus rugensis of Micronesia may be nested within this genus; it is a large species in which males are almost entirely white with a blue-black face.

<==Monarcha Vigors & Horsfield 1827CC10
    |--+--M. godeffroyiBKB15
    |  `--M. takatsukasaeBKB15 [=Metabolus takatsukasaeOF19]
    `--+--Metabolus rugensisBKB15
       `--+--M. cinerascensBKB15
          `--+--+--M. castaneiventrisBKB15
             |  `--M. richardsiiJT12
             `--+--M. fraterBKB15
                `--M. melanopsis (Vieillot 1818)BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
                     |--M. m. melanopsisM03
                     `--M. m. pallidaM03

Monarcha incertae sedis:
  M. albiventris Gould 1866G66 [=M. trivirgatus albiventrisM03, Piezorhynchus albiventrisR87]
  M. alecto (Temminck 1827) [=Drymophila alecto]WS48
    |--M. a. alectoWS48
    `--M. a. nitidus (Gould 1840) [=Piezorhynchus nitidus; incl. M. alicto tormenti Mathews 1912]WS48
  M. boanensisJT12
  M. brehmiiJT12
  M. browniJT12
  M. castusJT12
  M. erythrostictusJT12
  M. everettiJT12
  M. infelixJT12
  M. julianaeJT12
  M. leucurusJT12
  M. loricatusJT12
  M. menckeiJT12
  M. pileatusJT12
  M. rubiensisAP21
  M. sacerdotumJT12
  M. viduusJT12

Monarcha melanopsis (Vieillot 1818)^{BKB15, CC10} [=Muscicapa melanopsis^CC10; incl. Muscipeta carinata^CC10, *Monarcha carinata^CC10]

*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 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[G66] Gould, J. 1866. Additions to the list of the avifauna of Australia, with descriptions of three new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 217–218.

[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 2^nd 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.

[R87] Ramsay, E. P. 1887. Descriptions of Australian birds’ eggs. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 1 (4): 1141–1152, pl. 19.

[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.