Heteromyias

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Heteromyias albispecularis 1.jpg

| image_caption = Grey-headed robin (Heteromyias cinereifrons)

| taxon = Heteromyias

| authority = Sharpe, 1879

| type_species = Poecilodryas cinereifrons{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=155 |title= Pectroicidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Ramsay, 1876

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 3; see text

}}

Heteromyias is a genus of passerine birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.

The genus was introduced by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1879 with the grey-headed robin (Heteromyias cinereifrons) as the type species.{{ cite book | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | authorlink1=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | year=1879 | title=Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 1 | volume=4 | publisher=Trustees of the British Museum |location=London | page=239 | series=Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8307229 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=580 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14484281 }} The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek {{Transliteration|grc|heteros}} "different" and the Modern Latin {{lang|la|myias}} "flycatcher".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n191 191] }}