Cettiidae

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Cettiidae
Cetti's warbler, Cettia cetti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Superfamily: Sylvioidea
Family: Cettiidae
Alström, Ericson, Olsson, & Sundberg, 2006
Genera

Abroscopus
Phyllergates

Tickellia

Horornis
Tesia
Cettia
Urosphena
Hemitesia

Cettiidae is a newly validated

bush warblers (Cettia) and their relatives. As a common name, cettiid warblers is usually used.[1]

Some taxonomic authorities include this entire family, along with the related genera

Its members occur mainly in

Tickellia and Abroscopus warblers, are mostly found in the forests of south and southeastern Asia, with one species of stubtail reaching as far north as Japan and Siberia. Only one species, Neumann's warbler (Hemitesia neumanni), occurs in Africa.[3] The range of the genus Cettia extends west to Western Europe, while that of Horornis extends well into the Pacific, as far as Fiji and Palau. Most of the species in the family are sedentary, but the Asian stubtail is wholly migratory and the Japanese bush warbler and Cetti's warbler are partly migratory over much of their range. A few species, such as the pale-footed bush warbler
, are altitudinal migrants.

The species are small, stubby birds. Most have moderately long to long tails, while the stubtails and tesias have tiny tails that do not even emerge past their tail coverts. The group is typically clad in dull plumage, often with a line above the eye, but some are more colorful. Altogether the Cettiidae are a quite variable group containing many aberrant birds that hitherto had been uncomfortably placed with a wide range of unrelated families.[citation needed] The Locustellidae, which contain birds which appear very similar to many cettiids, are far more uniform by contrast.[4]

Most live in scrubland and frequently hunt food by clambering through thick tangled growth.

Taxonomy

The family Cettiidae was introduced by Per Alström and coworkers in 2006.[1]

The following cladogram showing the family relationships is based on a study by Carl Oliveros and coworkers published in 2019.

International Ornithological Committee (IOC).[6]

Aegithaloidea

Phylloscopidae
– leaf warblers (81 species)

Hyliidae – hylias (2 species)

Aegithalidae – bushtits (13 species)

Erythrocercidae
– bristle flycatchers (3 species)

Scotocercidae
– streaked scrub warbler

Cettiidae – bush warblers and allies (32 species)

The phylogenetic relationships between the eight genera were determined in a 2011 study by Per Alström and coworkers.[7]

Cettiidae

Hemitesia – (2 species)

Urosphena – stubtails (3 species)

Tesia – tesias (4 species)

Cettia – (4 species)

Abroscopus – warblers (3 species)

Phyllergates – tailorbirds (2 species)

Tickellia
– Broad-billed warbler

Horornis – bush warblers (13 species)

The family contains 31 species in eight genera.[6]

Image Genus Living species
Abroscopus Baker, 1930 – warblers
Phyllergates Sharpe, 1883 – tailorbirds
Tickellia
Blyth, 1861 – broad-billed warbler
Horornis Hodgson, 1845 – bush warblers
Tesia Hodgson, 1837 – tesias
Cettia Bonaparte, 1834 – typical bush warblers
Urosphena R. Swinhoe, 1877 – stubtails
Hemitesia Chapin, 1948 – warblers

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