Staphida

Staphida
Striated yuhina, Staphida castaniceps
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Zosteropidae
Genus:	Staphida Swinhoe, 1871
Type species
Siva torqueola (Indochinese yuhina) Swinhoe, 1870
Species
see text

Staphida is a genus of passerine birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

Taxonomy

These species were formerly placed in the genus Yuhina. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2019 found that Yuhina was not monophyletic.^[1] To create monophyletic genera these three species were moved to the resurrected genus Staphida that had originally been introduced in 1871 to accommodate the Indochinese yuhina by the English naturalist Robert Swinhoe in John Gould's The Birds of Asia.^[2][3]

The genus contains the following three species:^[3]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Chestnut-crested yuhina	Staphida everetti	montane Borneo
	Striated yuhina	Staphida castaniceps	Himalayas to north-western Thailand
	Indochinese yuhina	Staphida torqueola	southern China and northern Indochina

References

1. Cai, T.; Cibois, A.; Alström, P.; Moyle, R.G.; Kennedy, J.D.; Shao, S.; Zhang, R.; Irestedt, M.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Gelang, M.; Qu, Y.; Lei, F.; Fjeldså, J. (2019). "Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 346–356. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010. PMID 30321696.
2. Gould, John (1860). "Staphida torqueola". The Birds of Asia. Vol. 4. London: self. Part 23, Plate 8 and text.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 September 2022.

• Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2