Oenanthe

Belongs within: Muscicapidae.

Oenanthe, wheatears, is a genus of insectivorous birds with characteristic red or white rump patches, found in more or less arid regions of Africa and Eurasia.

<==Oenanthe Vieillot 1816M02 [incl. Vitiflora Forster 1817B94; Oenanthinae, Vitiflorinae]
    |  i. s.: O. heugliniAP21
    |         O. infima Kurochkin 1985U93
    |         O. lugentoidesJT12
    |         O. lugubris (Rüppell 1837)AP21, St05 [=Saxicola lugubrisSt05, O. lugens lugubrisSt05]
    |--+--+--O. oenanthe (Linnaeus 1758)BKB15, M02 [=Motacilla oenantheM02, Saxicola oenantheSc05]
    |  |  |    |--O. o. oenantheSc05
    |  |  |    `--‘Saxicola’ o. leucorrhoa (Gmelin 1788) [=Motacilla leucorrhoa]Sc05
    |  |  `--+--O. pileataBKB15
    |  |     `--+--O. bottaeBKB15 [=Saxicola bottaeSt05]
    |  |        |    |--O. b. bottaeSt05
    |  |        |    `--O. b. frenata (von Heuglin 1869)St05
    |  |        `--O. isabellina (Temminck 1829)BKB15, St05 [=Saxicola isabellinaSt05]
    |  `--+--+--O. desertiBKB15
    |     |  `--O. monachaBKB15
    |     `--+--O. cypriacaBKB15
    |        `--+--O. hispanica (Linnaeus 1758)BKB15, M02 [=Motacilla hispanicaM02]
    |           `--O. pleschankaBKB15
    `--+--+--O. albifronsAP21 [=Myrmecocichla albifronsBKB15]
       |  `--O. phillipsiBKB15
       `--+--+--O. dubiaAP21 [=Cercomela dubiaBKB15]
          |  `--O. scotocercaAP21 [=Cercomela scotocercaBKB15]
          `--+--+--O. moestaBKB15
             |  `--+--O. familiarisAP21 [=Cercomela familiarisBKB15]
             |     `--O. melanuraAP21 [=Cercomela melanuraBKB15]
             `--+--+--O. fuscaAP21 [=Cercomela fuscaBKB15]
                |  `--O. picataBKB15
                `--+--+--+--O. leucopygaBKB15 [=Saxicola leucopygiusSt05, Parus leucopygiusSt05]
                   |  |  `--O. leucuraBKB15
                   |  `--O. schalowiBKB15
                   `--+--O. albonigraBKB15
                      `--+--O. finschiiBKB15
                         `--+--O. xanthoprymnaBKB15
                            `--+--O. chrysopygiaBKB15
                               `--+--O. lugensBKB15
                                  `--O. persicaBKB15

*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.

[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.

[M02] Mlíkovský, J. 2002. Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press: Praha.

[Sc05] Schalow, H. 1905. Die Vögel der Arktis. In: Römer, F., & F. Schaudinn (eds) Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellun der arktischen Tierformen, mit besonder Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898 vol. 4 pp. 79–288. Gustav Fischer: Jena.

[St05] Steinheimer, F. D. 2005. Eduard Rüppel’s avian types at the Natural History Museum, Tring (Aves). Senckenbergiana Biologica 85 (2): 233–264.

[U93] Unwin, D. M. 1993. Aves. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 717–737. Chapman & Hall: London.