Argya

Most of the species now placed in the genus Argya were previously assigned to the genus Turdoides. Following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, Turdoides was split and species were moved to the resurrected genus Argya that had been erected by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831.{{ cite journal | last1=Cibois | first1=A. | last2=Gelang | first2=M. | last3=Alström | first3=P. | last4=Pasquet | first4=E. | last5=Fjeldså | first5=J. | last6=Ericson | first6=P.G.P. | last7=Olsson | first7=U. | year=2018 | title=Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy | journal=Zoologica Scripta | volume=47 | issue=4 | pages=428–440 | doi=10.1111/zsc.12296 | s2cid=51883434 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Laughingthrushes and allies | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/laughingthrushes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=16 January 2019 }}{{ cite book | last=Lesson | first=René | author-link=René Lesson | year=1831 | title=Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique | language=French | place=Paris | publisher=F.G. Levrault | page=402 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35997386 }} The name is from the Latin argutus meaning "noisy".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=55 }} Lesson did not specify a type species but this was designated as the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1855 | title=Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum | location=London | publisher=British Museum | page=43, No. 723 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136683 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=331 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486520 }}

The following cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships between the species is based on a study by Alice Cibois and collaborators that was published in 2018. The Iraq babbler (Argya altirostris) and the orange-billed babbler (Argya rufescens) were not included in the study. The Afghan babbler (Argya huttoni) has been split from the common babbler.

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|1=Striated babbler – Argya earlei

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The genus contains 16 species:Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

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Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
120px	Large grey babbler	Argya malcolmi	India
120px	Ashy-headed laughingthrush	Argya cinereifrons	Sri Lanka
120px	Arabian babbler	Argya squamiceps	United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen and western Saudi Arabia
120px	Fulvous babbler	Argya fulva	Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Tunisia.
120px	White-throated babbler	Argya gularis	Myanmar.
120px	Striated babbler	Argya earlei	Pakistan to Myanmar.
120px	Iraq babbler	Argya altirostris	Iraq and south-western Iran
120px	Common babbler	Argya caudata	India.
120px	Afghan babbler	Argya huttoni	southeastern Iraq to south western Pakistan.
120px	Rufous chatterer	Argya rubiginosa	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
120px	Scaly chatterer	Argya aylmeri	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.
120px	Yellow-billed babbler	Argya affinis	southern India and Sri Lanka.
120px	Jungle babbler	Argya striata	India
120px	Orange-billed babbler	Argya rufescens	Sri Lanka.
120px	Slender-billed babbler	Argya longirostris	Bangladesh, Nepal, Northeast India and possibly Myanmar
120px	Rufous babbler	Argya subrufa	India

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Category:Leiothrichidae