| Qilian bluetail | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Tarsiger |
| Species: | T. albocoeruleus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tarsiger albocoeruleus Meise, 1937 | |
The Qilian bluetail (Tarsiger albocoeruleus) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is found in north-central China. It formerly considered as conspecific with the red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus).
The Qilian bluetail was formally described in 1937 by the German ornithologist Wilhelm Meise as a subspecies of Tarsiger cyanurus, the red-flanked bluetail. [1] The epithet albocoeruleus combines the Latin albus meaning "white" with caeruleus meaning "blue". [2] It was previously usually considered a synonym of T. cyanurus, until accepted by Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson in 2018, [3] and it was proposed to be a full species in a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022. [4] It has now been recognised by the IOC World Bird List, [5] and the ebird/Clements Checklist. [6] It is distinctive in genetics and vocalisation, but only marginally different in morphology. The males have bluer fore-supercilium, and less white than in red-flanked bluetail. [4] [7]
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