Pseudonigrita

It contains two species, which are both found in eastern Africa:

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|name=Grey-capped social weaver |binomial=Pseudonigrita arnaudi

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|authority-name=Bonaparte |authority-year= 1850|authority-not-original=yes

|range= Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda

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|name=Black-capped social weaver |binomial=Pseudonigrita cabanisi

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|authority-name=Fischer & Reichenow |authority-year= 1884|authority-not-original=yes

|range=central and southern Ethiopia, much of Kenya, a patch of Somalia

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French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte described the grey-capped social weaver as Nigrita arnaudi in 1850, based on a specimen collected by the French explorer Joseph Pons d'Arnaud around 1841 near Juba on the White Nile.{{cite book|title= Conspectus generum avium|language= la|first= Charles Lucien|last= Bonaparte|year= 1850|volume= 1|publisher= E.J. Brill|location= Lugduni Batavorum| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43560671 | page=444}} In 1884, the black-capped social weaver was first described by German East-Africa explorer Gustav Fischer and German ornithologist Anton Reichenow as Nigrita cabanisi, based on a specimen collected in 1883 by Fischer in the Pare Mountains. In 1903, Reichenow assigned both species to his newly erected genus Pseudonigrita, because he considered P. arnaudi and P. cabanisi related to weaverbirds (Ploceidae), while the other species Nigrita bicolor, N. canicapillus, N. fusconota and N. luteifrons are negrofinches assigned to the estrildid finches. In 1942, Hans von Boetticher was of the opinion that cabanisi was different enough to assign it to its own genus, and made the new combination Somalita cabanisi.{{cite web|website= vogelsbekijken.be|title= Zwartkapwever|url= http://www.vogelsbekijken.be/zangvogels/blzwevers/Zwartkapwever.html|access-date= 2017-04-23|language= nl|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170424002943/http://www.vogelsbekijken.be/zangvogels/blzwevers/Zwartkapwever.html|archive-date= 2017-04-24}}{{cite journal|first= Hans von|last= Boetticher|year= 1942|title= Der kleine Schwarzkopf-Sperlingsweber|journal= Verhandlungen der Ornithologischen Gesellschaft in Bayern|volume= 22|issue= 2|pages= 207–210|url= http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Verhandlungen-Ornith-Ges-Bayern_22_2_1942_0207-0210.pdf|access-date= 2017-04-23}}

Pseudonigrita: {{langx|el|ψευδος}} pseudos "false"; genus Nigrita Strickland, 1843{{cite book |last1= Jobling |first1=J.A.|year= 2017| chapter= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology|chapter-url= https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/pseudonigrita |chapter-url-access=subscription |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. |title= Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive |url= https://www.hbw.com/ |url-access=subscription |location= Barcelona|publisher= Lynx Edicions}}{{source needed|reason=Greek ψεῦδος is not an adjective meaning 'false', but a noun meaning 'falsehood' or 'lie'. Please use a realiable source.|date=March 2025}}

Based on recent DNA-analysis (which did not include P. cabanisi), the genus Pseudonigrita belongs to the group of sparrow weavers (subfamily Plocepasserinae), and is most related to Philetairus socius. This clade is sister to Plocepasser.{{cite journal|first1= Thilina N.|last1= De Silva|first2= A. Townsend|last2= Peterson|first3= John M.|last3= Bates|first4= Sumudu W.|last4= Fernandoa|first5= Matthew G.|last5= Girard|year= 2017|title= Phylogenetic relationships of weaverbirds (Aves: Ploceidae): A first robust phylogeny based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers|journal= Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume= 109|pages= 21–32|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.013|pmid= 28012957|bibcode= 2017MolPE.109...21D|s2cid= 205841906}} Provided that the sister relationship between the Pseudonigrita-species is correct, the following tree expresses current insights.

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|2={{clade

|label1=subfamily Bubalornithinae

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|1=Dinemellia dinemelli

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|2=all other weaverbirds

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