Alström's warbler

Alström's warbler, or plain-tailed warbler (Phylloscopus soror) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. The species was first described in 1999. It breeds only in China, and winters in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.[2]

Alström's warbler

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Phylloscopidae
Genus: Phylloscopus
Species:
P. soror
Binomial name
Phylloscopus soror
(Alström & Olsson, 1999)
Synonyms

Seicercus soror

Alström's warbler was previously placed in the genus Seicercus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that neither Phylloscopus nor Seicercus were monophyletic.[3] In the subsequent reorganization the two genera were merged into Phylloscopus which has priority under the rules of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[4] The common name honours the Swedish ornithologist Per Alström.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2017). "Phylloscopus soror". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  2. Alström, P.; Olsson, U. (1999). "The Golden‐spectacled warbler: a complex of sibling species, including a previously undescribed species". Ibis. 141 (4): 545-568 [556]. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1999.tb07363.x.
  3. Alström, P.; et al. (2018). "Complete species-level phylogeny of the leaf warbler (Aves: Phylloscopidae) radiation" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 126: 141–152. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.031. PMID 29631054.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Bushtits, leaf warblers, reed warblers". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 August 2018.


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