Polioptila is a genus of small insectivorous birds in the family Polioptilidae. They are found in North and South America.
The genus Polioptila was introduced by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1855. Although he listed several members, he did not specify a type species.[2] This was designated by the American ornithologist Spencer Baird in 1864 as Montacilla caerulea, Linnaeus, now the blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea.[3][4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek words πολιοςpolios "grey" and πτιλονptilon "plumage".[5]
The genus contains 17 species:[6]
Rio Negro gnatcatcher, Polioptila facilis – split from P. guianensis
Para gnatcatcher, Polioptila paraensis – split from P. guianensis
Iquitos gnatcatcher, Polioptila clementsi – described in 2005
Inambari gnatcatcher, Polioptila attenboroughi – described in 2013
Tropical gnatcatcher, Polioptila plumbea
Creamy-bellied gnatcatcher, Polioptila lactea
Masked gnatcatcher, Polioptila dumicola
Cuban gnatcatcher, Polioptila lembeyei
Yucatan gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiventris
White-browed gnatcatcher, Polioptila bilineata – split from P. plumbea
Blue-grey gnatcatcher, Polioptila caerulea
Black-tailed gnatcatcher, Polioptila melanura
California gnatcatcher, Polioptila californica
Black-capped gnatcatcher, Polioptila nigriceps
White-lored gnatcatcher, Polioptila albiloris
^"Polioptilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
^Sclater, P.L. (1855). "On the genus Culicivora of Swainson, and its component species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 23: 11–12.
^Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1864). Review of American birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Vol. Part 1, North and Middle America. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. p. 67.
^Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 448.
^Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
^Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, Elachura, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
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(1995). Effects of fire on the ecology of the California Gnatcatcher, Polioptila californica, in California sage scrub communities. Proceedings - Fire...
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