White-tailed flycatcher

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White-tailed flycatcher
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Leucoptilon
Sangster et al., 2021
Species:
L. concretum
Binomial name
Leucoptilon concretum
(Müller, 1836)
Synonyms
  • Muscicapa concretaMüller, 1836 (protonym)
  • Cyornis concretus

The white-tailed flycatcher (Leucoptilon concretum) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Leucoptilon. It is found in submountain forests from the eastern Himalayas and northern Myanmar to southern China, western and southern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

Taxonomy

The white-tailed flycatcher was formally described in 1836 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller based on a specimen collected in the interior of the west coast of Sumatra. Müller placed the species in the genus Muscicapa and coined the binomial name Muscicapa concreta. [2] [3] The specific epithet concretum is from Modern Latin concretus meaning "large", "sturdy" or "strong". It comes from Medieval Latin concretus meaning "concrete". [4] The white-tailed flycatcher was previously assigned to the genus Cyornis but based on evidence from molecular phylogenetic studies the species is now placed in its own monotypic genus Leucoptilon that was introduced in 2021 by George Sangster and collaborators. [5] [6] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek λευκος/leukos meaning "white" with πτιλον/ptilon meaning "feather". [7]

Three subspecies are recognised: [6]

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Cyornis concretus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22709499A94212201. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22709499A94212201.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Müller, Salomon (1836). "Aanteekeningen, over de natuurlijke gesteldheid van een gedeelte der westkust en binnenlanden van Sumatra, met bijvoeging van eenige waarnemingen en beschrijvingen van verscheidene op dit, en andere Sunda-eilanden voorkomende dieren". Tijdschrift Voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie (in Dutch). 2: 315-355 [351-352].
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 360–361.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. "concretus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  5. ↑ Sangster, G.; Alström, P.; Gaudin, J.; Olsson, U. (2021). "A new genus for the White-tailed Flycatcher Cyornis concretus (Aves: Muscicapidae)". Zootaxa. 5072 (6): 599–600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5072.6.7.
  6. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Leucoptilon". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 1 September 2025.


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