Phyllastrephus

Belongs within: Pycnonotidae.

Phyllastrephus, greenbuls and brownbuls, is an African genus of dull-coloured bulbuls.

<==Phyllastrephus Swainson 1831 [Phyllastrephidae]B94
    |  i. s.: P. albigulaAP21
    |         P. alfrediAP21
    |         P. baumanniJT12
    |         P. fulviventrisJT12
    |         P. leucolepisJT12
    |         P. poliocephalusJT12
    |--+--P. debilis (Sclater 1899)BKB15, B93 [=Xenocichla debilisB93]
    |  |    |--P. d. debilisL03
    |  |    `--P. d. rabai Hartert & van Someren 1921L03
    |  `--+--P. icterinusBKB15
    |     `--+--P. albigularisBKB15
    |        `--P. xavieri (Oustalet 1892)BKB15, L03
    |             |--P. x. xavieri [incl. P. icterinus sethsmithi Hartert & Neumann 1910]L03
    |             `--P. x. serlei Chapin 1949L03
    `--+--+--+--P. flavostriatusBKB15
       |  |  |    |--P. f. flavostriatusL03
       |  |  |    `--P. f. graueri Neumann 1908L03
       |  |  `--P. hypochlorisBKB15
       |  `--+--P. lorenziBKB15
       |     `--P. scandensBKB15 [=Pyrrhurus scandensJT12]
       |          |--P. s. scandensL03
       |          `--‘Pyrrhurus’ s. orientalis (Hartlaub 1883) [=Xenocichla orientalis]L03
       `--+--P. terrestrisBKB15
          `--+--+--P. cerviniventrisBKB15
             |  `--P. strepitansBKB15
             `--+--P. poensisBKB15
                `--+--P. cabanisi (Sharpe 1881)BKB15, L03 [incl. Criniger sylvicultor Neave 1909L03]
                   `--+--P. fischeri (Reichenow 1879)BKB15, L03 [incl. P. placidus sokokensis van Someren 1923L03]
                      `--P. placidusBKB15

*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.

[B93] Brooke, R. K. 1993. Annotated catalogue of the Aves type specimens in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 102 (10): 327–349.

[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.

[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.