Muscicapoidea is a superfamily belonging to the infraorder Passerides containing the Old World flycatchers, thrushes, starlings and their allies. The superfamily contains around 670 species.
Within the parvorder Muscicapida, Muscicapoidea is sister to a clade containing the superfamily Certhioidea and the family Regulidae.[1]
In 2019 Carl Oliveros and colleagues published a large molecular phylogenetic study of the passerines that included species from each of the seven families that make up the superfamily Muscicapoidea.[1][2]
MuscicapoideaElachuridae – spotted elachura
Cinclidae – dippers (5 species)
Muscicapidae – chats, Old World flycatchers (332 species)
Turdidae – thrushes (172 species)
Buphagidae – oxpeckers (2 species)
Sturnidae – starlings, rhabdornis (123 species)
Mimidae – mockingbirds, thrashers (34 species)
Muscicapoidea is a superfamily belonging to the infraorder Passerides containing the Old World flycatchers, thrushes, starlings and their allies. The superfamily contains around 670 species.
Within the parvorder Muscicapida, Muscicapoidea is sister to a clade containing the superfamily Certhioidea and the family Regulidae.
