Eremopterix

Eremopterix
Males and females of the six species on the African mainland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Alaudidae
Genus:	Eremopterix Kaup, 1836
Type species
Fringilla otoleuca [1] Temminck, 1824
Species
See text
Range of the genus
Synonyms
Coraphites Megalotis Pyrrhulauda - A. Smith, 1839 [2]

Eremopterix is the genus of sparrow-larks, songbirds in the family Alaudidae. The sparrow-larks are found from Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

Taxonomy and systematics

Extant species

The genus Eremopterix contains the following extant species: ^[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Eremopterix australis	Black-eared sparrow-lark	southern Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
	Eremopterix hova	Madagascar lark	Madagascar.
	Eremopterix nigriceps	Black-crowned sparrow-lark	Mauritania through the Middle East to north-western India
	Eremopterix leucotis	Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark	Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
	Eremopterix griseus	Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark	South Asia
	Eremopterix signatus	Chestnut-headed sparrow-lark	eastern and north-eastern Africa
	Eremopterix verticalis	Grey-backed sparrow-lark	southern and south-central Africa
	Eremopterix leucopareia	Fischer's sparrow-lark	central Kenya to eastern Zambia, Malawi and north-western Mozambique

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Eremopterix:

• Arabian Dunn's lark (as Pyrrhulauda eremodites)

References

1. "Alaudidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Mlíkovský, Jirí (1998). "Generic name of southern snowfinches" (PDF). Forktail . 14: 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2012.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Nicators, reedling, larks". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 July 2018.