Artamus

White-breasted woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus, copyright T. R. Shankar Raman.

Belongs within: Corvides.

Artamus, the woodswallows, is a genus of plump, highly aerial birds with long, pointed wings found in southern Asia and Australasia.

Artamus Vieillot 1816 CC10 (see below for synonymy)
    |  i. s.: A. fuscus JT12
    |         A. insignis JT12
    |         ‘Lanius’ leucogaster [=Ocypterus leucogaster] W66
    |         A. maximus JT12
    |         A. melanoleucus S13
    |         A. mentalis JT12
    |         A. monachus JT12
    |         A. papuensis [=Ocypterus papuensis] W66
    |--+--A. personatus (Gould 1841) BKB15, CC10 [=Ocypterus personatus CC10]
    |  `--A. superciliosus (Gould 1837) BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
    `--+--+--*A. leucorynchus (Linnaeus 1771) CC10, BKB15, WS48 (see below for synonymy)
       |  |    |--A. l. leucorynchus WS48
       |  |    `--A. l. leucopygialis Gould 1842 [incl. A. leucorhynchus harterti Mathews 1912] WS48
       |  `--A. cyanopterus (Latham 1801) BKB15, WS48 (see below for synonymy)
       `--+--A. cinereus Vieillot 1817 BKB15, WS48
          |    |--A. c. cinereus WS48
          |    |--A. c. albiventris [incl. A. c. dealbatus, A. c. normani] M03
          |    |--A. c. melanops Gould 1865 [incl. A. tregallasi Mathews 1911] WS48
          |    `--A. c. venustus Sharpe 1878 WS48
          `--A. minor Vieillot 1817 BKB15, WS48 [incl. A. minor derbyi Mathews 1912 WS48]

Artamus Vieillot 1816 CC10 [incl. Leptopteryx Horsfield 1821 B94, Ocypterus Cuvier 1816 B94; Leptopterygidae, Ocypteridae]

Artamus cyanopterus (Latham 1801) BKB15, WS48 [=Loxia cyanoptera WS48; incl. Angroyan cyanopterus perthi Mathews 1915 WS48, Artamus cyanopterus perthi M03]

*Artamus leucorynchus (Linnaeus 1771) CC10, BKB15, WS48 [=Lanius leucorhynchus CC10, Leptopteryx leucorhynchus W66; incl. L. dominicanus W66, L. manillensis W66]

Artamus superciliosus (Gould 1837) BKB15, CC10 [=Ocypterus superciliosus CC10; incl. Campbellornis superciliosus pallida Mathews 1916 WS48]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[M03] Morcombe, M. 2003. Field Guide to Australian Birds 2^nd ed. Steve Parish Publishing.

[S13] Sarasin, F. 1913. Die Vögel Neu-Caledoniens und der Loyalty-Inseln. In: Sarasin, F., & J. Roux (eds) Nova Caledonia: Forschungen in Neu-Caledonian und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. A. Zoologie vol. 1 pt 1 pp. 1–78, pls 1–3. C. W. Kreidels Verlag: Wiesbaden.

[W66] Walden, A. 1866. Notes on birds collected in Tennasserim and in the Andaman Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 537–556.

[WS48] Whittell, H. M., & D. L. Serventy. 1948. A systematic list of the birds of Western Australia. Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Special Publication 1: 1–126.