Grey-rumped swallow

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Grey-rumped swallow

| image = Grey-rumped Swallow 143ND500 DSC0460-1.jpg

| image_caption = Grey-rumped Swallow

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |year= 2017 |title=Pseudhirundo griseopyga |amends= 2016 |page= e.T22712209A118747190 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22712209A118747190.en|access-date=25 May 2023}}

| genus = Pseudhirundo

| parent_authority = Roberts, 1922

| species = griseopyga

| authority = (Sundevall, 1850)

| synonyms = Hirundo griseopyga griseopyga Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)

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The grey-rumped swallow (Pseudhirundo griseopyga) is a species of swallow. It is the only member of the genus Pseudhirundo.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Phylogenetic analysis has shown that the grey-rumped swallow is most closely related to the white-backed swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna) that is found in Australia.{{Cite journal | last1=Schield | first1=D.R. | last2=Brown | first2=C.E. | last3=Shakya | first3=S.B. | last4=Calabrese | first4=G.M. | last5=Safran | first5=R.J. | last6=Sheldon | first6=F.H. | date=2024 | title=Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the swallow family (Hirundinidae) inferred from comparisons of thousands of UCE loci | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | pages=108111 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108111| doi-access=free }}