Belongs within: Corvoidea.
Contains: Terpsiphone, Myiagra, Monarcha.
The Monarchidae include the monarch flycatchers, insectivorous birds found in Africa, southern Asia and Australasia. In its current sense, the group is primarily supported by molecular data, but most species have broad, flat, ridged bills, relatively long wings, and small legs and feet. The Australasian mudlarks of the genus Grallina are longer-legged birds with contrasting black and white plumage whose vernacular name refers to their construction of nests from mud. Hypothymis is a genus of blue-plumaged species found in southern and eastern Asia.
<==Monarchidae [Monarchinae, Myiagridae]
| i. s.: Eutrichomyias rowleyiJT12
|--+--TrochocercusBKB15
| | |--T. cyanomelasBKB15
| | `--T. nitensBKB15
| `--+--TerpsiphoneBKB15
| `--HypothymisBKB15
| |--H. azureaBKB15
| |--H. coelestisJT12
| |--H. helenaeBKB15
| `--H. puellaAP21
`--+--+--MyiagraBKB15
| `--Grallina Vieillot 1816BKB15, B94 [Grallinidae]
| |--G. bruijniJT12
| |--G. cyanoleuca (Latham 1802)CC10 (see below for synonymy)
| `--G. picataCH89
`--+--ArsesBKB15
| |--A. insularisJT12
| |--A. kaupiJT12
| |--A. lorealisAP21
| `--A. telescophthalmusBKB15
`--+--SymposiachrusBKB15
| | i. s.: S. bimaculatusAP21
| | S. boanensisAP21
| | S. brehmiiAP21
| | S. browniAP21
| | S. everettiAP21
| | S. infelixAP21
| | S. julianaeAP21
| | S. leucurusAP21
| | S. loricatusAP21
| | S. menckeiAP21
| | S. sacerdotumAP21
| | S. verticalisAP21
| | S. viduaAP21
| |--+--S. axillarisBKB15 [=Monarcha axillarisBKB15]
| | `--S. manadensisBKB15 [=Monarcha manadensisJT12]
| `--+--S. barbatusBKB15 [=Monarcha barbatusJT12]
| `--+--S. mundusAP21 [=Monarcha mundusBKB15]
| `--+--S. guttulaBKB15 [=Monarcha guttulaJT12]
| `--S. trivirgatusBKB15 [=Monarcha trivirgatusJT12, Piezorhynchus trivirgataR87]
| |--S. t. trivirgatusM03
| `--‘Monarcha’ t. gouldiiM03 [=Piezorhynchus gouldiiR87]
`--+--CarterornisBKB15
| |--C. chrysomelaBKB15 [=Monarcha chrysomelaJT12]
| |--C. leucotisBKB15 [=Monarcha leucotisJT12]
| `--C. pileatusAP21
`--+--ChasiempisBKB15
| |--C. ibidisHSS13
| |--C. sandwichensisBKB15
| `--C. sclateriAP21
`--+--MonarchaBKB15
`--+--+--Neolalage banksianaBKB15
| `--+--MayrornisBKB15
| | |--M. lessoniBKB15
| | |--M. schistaceusJT12
| | `--M. versicolorJT12
| `--ClytorhynchusBKB15
| |--C. hamliniBKB15
| |--C. nigrogularisJT12
| |--C. pachycephaloidesBKB15
| |--C. sanctaecrucisJT12
| `--C. vitiensisJT12
`--PomareaBKB15
| i. s.: P. dimidiataAP21
| P. fluxaHSS13
| P. miraHSS13
| P. nigraAP21
| |--P. n. nigraFP64
| `--P. n. tabuensisFP64
| P. nukuhivaeHSS13
| P. pomareaHSS13 [=P. nigra pomareaFP64]
|--P. mendozaeBKB15
| |--P. m. mendozaeHSS13
| `--P. motanensisHSS13
`--+--P. iphisBKB15
`--P. whitneyiBKB15
Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham 1802)CC10 [=Corvus cyanoleucusCC10; incl. Tanypus australis Oppel 1812CC10, Grallina australisCC10, G. cyanoleuca neglecta Mathews 1912WS48]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[AP21] Arlott, N., & B. van Perlo. 2021. Collins Birds of the World. William Collins.
[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.
[FP64] Fisher, J., & R. T. Peterson. 1964. The World of Birds: A comprehensive guide to general ornithology. Macdonald: London.
[HSS13] Hirschfeld, E., A. Swash & R. Still. 2013. The World’s Rarest Birds. Princeton University Press: Princeton (New Jersey).
[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.
[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.