Agropsar

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Purple-backed Starling.jpg

| image_caption = Daurian starling (Agropsar sturninus)

| taxon = Agropsar

| authority = Oates, 1889

}}

Agropsar is a genus of Asian birds in the family Sturnidae. It is sometimes merged with Sturnus or Sturnia

These two species were formerly placed in the genus Sturnus. They were moved to the resurrected genus Agropsar based on the results of two molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2008.{{ cite journal | last1=Zuccon | first1=D. | last2=Pasquet | first2=E. | last3=Ericson | first3=P.G.P. | year=2008 | title=Phylogenetic relationships among Palearctic-Oriental starlings and mynas (genera Sturnus and Acridotheres: Sturnidae) | journal=Zoologica Scripta | volume=37 | issue=5 | pages=469–481 | doi=10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00339.x | s2cid=56403448 }}{{ cite journal | last1=Lovette | first1=I.J. | last2=McCleery | first2=B.V. | last3=Talaba | first3=A.L. | last4=Rubenstein | first4=D.R. | year=2008 | title=A complete species-level molecular phylogeny for the 'Eurasian' starlings (Sturnidae:Sturnus, Acridotheres, and allies): Recent diversification in a highly social and dispersive avian group | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=47 | issue=1 | pages=251–260 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.020 | pmid=18321732}}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, mockingbirds, starlings, oxpeckers | work=World Bird List Version 8.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/nuthatch/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=11 May 2018 }}