Hypothymis

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Hypothymis

| image = Black-Naped Monarch Flycatcher male.jpg

| image_caption = Black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea)

| taxon = Hypothymis

| authority = F. Boie, 1826

| type_species = Muscicapa caerulea{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=150 |title= Monarchidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1788

| synonyms = * Camiguinia

• Cyanomyas
• Cyanomyias

}}

Hypothymis is a genus of birds in the family Monarchidae.

The genus was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the black-naped monarch (Hypothymis azurea) as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Boie | first=Friedrich | author-link=Friedrich Boie | year=1826 | title=Generalübersicht | journal=Isis von Oken | volume=1826 | at=Col 973 | language=de |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27511178 }}{{ 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=472 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14484173 }} The word Hypothymis is from the Ancient Greek hupothumis, the name of an unidentified bird mentioned by the playwright Aristophanes.{{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=200 }}