Lalage

Male white-winged triller Lalage sueurii, copyright David Cook.

Belongs within: Campephagidae.
Contains: Lalage leucomela, Lalage maculosa.

Lalage, the trillers, is a genus of small insectivorous birds, found in southern Asia and Australasia, that are commonly patterned in black, grey and white.

Lalage Boie 1826 [incl. Diaphoropterus Oberholser 1899, Symmorphus Gould 1838 non Wesmael 1836] CC10
    |  i. s.: L. aurea JT12
    |         L. banksiana S13
    |         L. moesta JT12
    |         ‘Diaphoropterus’ naevius S13
    |           |--D. n. naevius S13
    |           `--D. n. simillimus Sarasin 1913 S13
    |--+--+--L. atrovirens BKB15
    |  |  `--L. leucomela JT12
    |  `--+--L. maculosa BKB15
    |     `--+--L. sharpei Rothschild 1900 JT12, L03
    |        |    |--L. s. sharpei L03
    |        |    `--L. s. tenebrosa Mayr & Ripley 1941 L03
    |        `--+--L. tricolor (Swainson 1825) BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
    |           `--+--L. leucopyga (Gould 1838) BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
    |              |    |--L. l. leucopyga L03
    |              |    |--L. l. albiloris Mayr & Ripley 1941 L03
    |              |    `--L. l. deficiens Mayr & Ripley 1941 L03
    |              `--L. sueurii (Vieillot 1818) BKB15, WS48 [=Turdus sueurii WS48]
    `--+--L. melanoleuca BKB15
       `--+--L. leucopygialis JT12
          `--+--L. nigra BKB15 [incl. Turdus orientalis CC10, *L. orientalis CC10]
             `--+--+--‘Coracina’ newtoni JT12
                |  `--‘Coracina’ typica JT12
                `--+--‘Coracina’ melanoptera BKB15
                   `--+--‘Coracina’ melaschistos BKB15
                      `--+--‘Coracina’ fimbriata BKB15
                         `--‘Coracina’ polioptera JT12

Lalage leucopyga (Gould 1838) BKB15, CC10 [=*Symmorphus leucopygus CC10, *Diaphoropterus leucopygus CC10, Lalage naevia leucopyga CC10; incl. Campephaga longicaudata Pelzeln 1860 CC10]

Lalage tricolor (Swainson 1825) BKB15, L03 [=Ceblepyris tricolor CC10, L. sueurii tricolor WS48; incl. L. tricolor indistincta Mathews 1912 L03, Karua leucomela mayi Ashby 1914 L03]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[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.

[L03] LeCroy, M. 2003. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 5. Passeriformes: Alaudidae, Hirundinidae, Motacillidae, Campephagidae, Pycnonotidae, Irenidae, Laniidae, Vangidae, Bombycillidae, Dulidae, Cinclidae, Troglodytidae, and Mimidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278: 1–156.

[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.

[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.