Peneothello

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image = Peneoenanthe pulverulenta - Cairns Esplanade.jpg

| image_caption = Mangrove robin (Peneothello pulverulenta)

| taxon = Peneothello

| authority = Mathews, 1920

| type_species = Poecilodryas sigillata{{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 = De Vis, 1890

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = see text

}}

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

The genus Peneothello was introduced by the Australian born ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1920 with white-winged robin (Peneothello sigillata) as the type species.{{ cite book | last=Mathews | first=Gregory | author-link=Gregory Mathews | year=1920 | title=Birds of Australia | volume=8 | location=London | publisher=Witherby | page=185 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53480694 }} The name combines the Latin pene "almost" and othello. Othello is the "Moorish" (i.e. black) Shakespeare character.{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/peneothello | accessdate=16 June 2019 }}