Melaenornis

Melaenornis
File:Southern Black-Flycatcher (Melaenornis pammelaina).jpg
Melaenornis pammelaina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Melaenornis G.R. Gray, 1840
Species
see text

Melaenornis is a genus of small passerine birds in the large family Muscicapidae commonly known as the Old World flycatchers. They are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

• Angolan slaty flycatcher, Melaenornis brunneus
• White-eyed slaty flycatcher, Melaenornis fischeri
• Abyssinian slaty flycatcher, Melaenornis chocolatinus
• Nimba flycatcher, Melaenornis annamarulae
• Yellow-eyed black flycatcher, Melaenornis ardesiacus
• Northern black flycatcher, Melaenornis edolioides
• Southern black flycatcher, Melaenornis pammelaina
• Pale flycatcher, Melaenornis pallidus
• Chat flycatcher, Melaenornis infuscatus
• African grey flycatcher, Melaenornis microrhynchus
• Marico flycatcher, Melaenornis mariquensis
• Fiscal flycatcher, Melaenornis silens

This genus formerly included fewer species. The results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 led to a reorganization of the Old World flycatchers family in which the four species in Bradornis and the single species in Sigelus were merged into Melaenornis.

Further reading

• Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 84-96553-06-X.