Pnoepyga

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Scaly-breasted Wren Babbler I IMG 6872.jpg

| image_caption = Scaly-breasted wren-babbler (Pnoepyga albiventer)

| taxon = Pnoepyga

| parent_authority = Gelang et al., 2009

| authority = Hodgson, 1844

| type_species = Tesia albiventer{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=254 |title= Pnoepygidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-15}}

| type_species_authority = Hodgson, 1837

}}

Pnoepyga is a genus of passerines endemic to southern and southeastern Asia. Its members are known as cupwings or wren-babblers. The genus contains four species. The genus has long been placed in the babbler family Timaliidae. A 2009 study of the DNA of the families Timaliidae and the Old World warblers (Sylviidae) found no support for the placement of the genus in either family, prompting the authors to erect a new monogeneric family, the Pnoepygidae.{{cite journal |last=Gelang |first=Magnus| author2=Cibois, Alice |author3=Pasquet, Eric |author4=Olsson, Urban |author5=Alström, Per |author6= Ericson, Per G. P. |date=2009|title=Phylogeny of babblers (Aves, Passeriformes): major lineages, family limits and classification |journal=Zoologica Scripta|volume=38|issue=3|pages=225–236| doi = 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00374.x|s2cid=21691730 }}

This genus of diminutive passerines has a mostly montane distribution in South and Southeast Asia. The scaly-breasted cupwing is found in the mountainous areas of north India eastwards to southern China and northern Vietnam. The Taiwan cupwing is endemic to Taiwan, and similarly the Nepal cupwing has a restricted distribution, mostly occurring in Nepal (and also slightly into India). The most widespread species is the pygmy cupwing, which occurs from China and India south through Southeast Asia into the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia as far as Flores and Timor.Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 - 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.