Erythrocercus

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| image = Chestnut-capped flycatcher (Erythrocercus mccallii nigeriae).jpg

| image_caption = Chestnut-capped flycatcher
E. mccallii nigeriae

| parent_authority = Fregin, Haase, Olsson & Alström, 2012

| taxon = Erythrocercus

| authority = Hartlaub, 1857

| type_species = Pycnophrys mccallii{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=258 |title= Scotocercidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-15}}

| type_species_authority = Cassin, 1855

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Erythrocercus is a genus of birds containing three flycatchers that are found in Africa.

The genus is placed in its own family Erythrocercidae that was introduced by Silke Fregin and collaborators in 2012.{{cite journal | last1=Fregin | first1=Silke |last2=Haase |first2=Martin | last3=Olsson | first3=Urban | last4=Alström | first4=Per | year=2012 | title=New insights into family relationships within the avian superfamily Sylvioidea (Passeriformes) based on seven molecular markers | journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume=12 | issue=Article 157 | pages=1–12 | doi=10.1186/1471-2148-12-157 | doi-access=free| pmid=22920688 | pmc=3462691 | bibcode=2012BMCEE..12..157F }}

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|caption=Cladogram showing the family relationships based on a study by Carl Oliveros and colleagues published in 2019.{{ cite journal | last1=Oliveros | first1=C.H. | display-authors=etal | year=2019 | title=Earth history and the passerine superradiation | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume=116 | issue=16 | pages=7916–7925 | doi=10.1073/pnas.1813206116 | pmid=30936315 | doi-access=free | pmc=6475423 | bibcode=2019PNAS..116.7916O }} The number of species is taken from the bird list maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC).{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=9 December 2021}}

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|1=Phylloscopidae – leaf warblers (80 species)

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|1=Aegithalidae – bushtits (13 species)

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|1=Erythrocercidae – flycatchers (3 species)

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|1=Scotocercidae – streaked scrub warbler

|2=Cettiidae – bush warblers and allies (32 species)

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