Aquilinae

Javan hawk-eagle Nisaetus bartelsi, copyright Eko Prastyo.

Belongs within: Accipitridae.
Contains: Aquila.

The Aquilinae, booted eagles, are a cosmopolitan group of large eagles characterised by feathered tarsi (Lerner & Mindell 2005).

<==Aquilinae LM05
    |--+--Stephanoaetus coronatus JT12
    |  `--Nisaetus JT12
    |       |  i. s.: N. floris JT12
    |       |--+--N. lanceolatus JT12 [=Spizaetus lanceolatus LM05]
    |       |  `--+--N. cirrhatus JT12 [=Spizaetus cirrhatus LM05]
    |       |     |    |--N. c. cirrhatus LM05
    |       |     |    `--'Spizaetus’ c. lineatus LM05
    |       |     `--N. philippensis JT12
    |       `--+--N. nanus JT12 [=Spizaetus nanus LM05]
    |          `--+--N. nipalensis JT12 [=Spizaetus nipalensis LM05]
    |             |    |--N. n. nipalensis I92
    |             |    `--'Spizaetus’ n. orientalis Temminck & Schlegel 1844 I92
    |             `--+--N. alboniger JT12
    |                `--N. bartelsi JT12
    `--+--+--‘Spizaetus’ tyrannus JT12
       |  `--+--Spizastur melanoleucus LM05 [=Spizaetus melanoleucus JT12]
       |     `--+--Oroaetus isidori LM05 [=Spizaetus isidori JT12]
       |        `--Spizaetus Vieillot 1816 JT12, B94 [Spizaetinae]
       |             |--S. bellicosus FP64
       |             |--S. coronatus WH02
       |             |--S. grinnelli WH02
       |             `--S. ornatus JT12
       `--+--Lophotriorchis kienerii JT12 [=Hieraaetus kienerii LM05]
          `--+--Polemaetus Heine 1890 JT12, M02
             |    `--P. bellicosus JT12
             `--+--+--Lophaetus occipitalis JT12
                |  `--+--Ictinaetus malayensis JT12
                |     `--+--‘Aquila’ hastata JT12 [=A. pomarina hastata LM05]
                |        `--+--‘Aquila’ clanga JT12
                |           `--‘Aquila’ pomarina JT12
                `--+--Aquila JT12
                   `--Hieraaetus Kaup 1844 JT12, CC10 [incl. Harpagornis Haast 1872 CC10]
                        |  i. s.: H. edwardsi (Sharpe 1899) (see below for synonymy) M02
                        |--H. wahlbergi LM05 [=Aquila wahlbergi JT12, Spizaetus wahlbergi LM05]
                        `--+--H. ayresii JT12
                           `--+--H. morphnoides (Gould 1840) LM05, WS48 (see below for synonymy)
                              `--+--*H. pennatus (Gmelin 1788) CC10, JT12, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
                                 |--H. moorei (Haast 1872) CC10 (see below for synonymy)
                                 `--H. weiskei JT12 [=H. morphnoides weiskei LM05]

Hieraaetus edwardsi (Sharpe 1899) [=Eutolmaetus edwardsi, Aquila edwardsi, Nisaetus edwardsi, Aquila minuta Milne-Edwards 1871 non Brehm 1831] M02

Hieraaetus moorei (Haast 1872) CC10 [=*Harpagornis moorei CC10, BKB15, Aquila moorei CC10; incl. Ha. assimilis Haast 1874 CC10]

Hieraaetus morphnoides (Gould 1840) LM05, WS48 [=Aquila morphnoides WS48; incl. A. morphnoides coongani Mathews 1912 WS48]

*Hieraaetus pennatus (Gmelin 1788) CC10, JT12, CC10 [=Falco pennatus CC10, Aquila pennata CC10; incl. A. minuta Brehm 1831 M02]

*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.

[FP64] Fisher, J., & R. T. Peterson. 1964. The World of Birds: A comprehensive guide to general ornithology. Macdonald: London.

[I92] Iwahashi, J. (ed.) 1992. Reddo Deeta Animaruzu: a pictorial of Japanese fauna facing extinction. JICC: Tokyo.

[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.

[LM05] Lerner, H. R. L., & D. P. Mindell. 2005. Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 327–346.

[M02] Mlíkovský, J. 2002. Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press: Praha.

[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.

[WH02] Worthy, T. H., & R. N. Holdaway. 2002. The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric life of New Zealand. Indiana University Press: Bloomington (Indiana).