Macrosphenus

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| image = AmaurocichlaKempiKeulemans.jpg

| image_caption = Kemp's longbill (Macrosphenus kempi)

| taxon = Macrosphenus

| authority = Cassin, 1859

| type_species = Macrosphenus flavicans{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=250 |title= Macrosphenidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Cassin, 1859

}}

Macrosphenus is a genus of African warblers, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It is one of two genera in that family known as longbills.

Taxonomy and systematics

=Extant species=

The genus contains five species:{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/crombecs/|title=Wren-babblers, crombecs, bush warblers, Streaked Scrub Warbler, yellow flycatchers & hylias « IOC World Bird List|website=www.worldbirdnames.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-05-07|archive-date=2017-05-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529101904/http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/crombecs/|url-status=live}}

Yellow longbill (Macrosphenus flavicans)
Kemp's longbill (Macrosphenus kempi)
Grey longbill (Macrosphenus concolor)
Pulitzer's longbill (Macrosphenus pulitzeri)
Kretschmer's longbill (Macrosphenus kretschmeri)

=Former species=

Some authorities, either presently or formerly, recognize several additional species as belonging to the genus Macrosphenus including:

Montane tiny greenbul (as Macrosphenus albigula){{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=CEE94E55&sec=summary&ssver=1|title=Phyllastrephus albigula - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=2017-05-07}}

References

Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot