Phoenicurus is a
genus of
passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family
Muscicapidae, native to
Europe,
Asia and
Africa. They are named redstarts from their orange-red tails ('start' is an old name for a tail). They are small
insectivores, the males mostly brightly coloured in various combinations of red, blue, white, and black, the females light brown with a red tail.[2] A
molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 led to a reorganization of the Old World flycatchers family in which the two species in Rhyacornis and the single species in Chaimarrornis were merged into Phoenicurus.[3][4]
†Phoenicurus erikai (Pliocene of Csarnota, Hungary).[8]
†Phoenicurus baranensis (Pliocene of Beremend, Hungary).[8]
References
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^Collar, N.J. (2005). "Phoenicurus". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D.A. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. pp. 769–773.
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^Sangster, G.; Alström, P.; Forsmark, E.; Olsson, U. (2010). "Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57 (1): 380–392.
doi:
10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008.
PMID20656044.
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abGill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.).
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Voelker, G.; Semenov, G.; Fadeev, I.V.; Blick, A.; Drovetski, S.V. (2015). "The biogeographic history of Phoenicurus redstarts reveals an allopatric mode of speciation and an out-of-Himalayas colonization pattern". Systematics and Biodiversity. 13 (3): 296–305.
doi:
10.1080/14772000.2014.992380.
S2CID85340881.