Sericornis

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{For-text|the similarly-named extinct dinosaur|Serikornis}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Pair of scrub wrens444.jpg

| image_caption = A female (left) white-browed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis) sings to its mate

| taxon = Sericornis

| authority = Gould, 1838

| type_species = Acanthiza frontalis{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=170 |title= Acanthizidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Vigors & Horsfield, 1827

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Sericornis is a genus of small, mainly insectivorous birds, the scrubwrens in the family Acanthizidae. Despite the similarity in shape and habits, the true wrens (Troglodytidae) are a quite unrelated group of passerines.

The genus previously contained additional species but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, several species were moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias and the yellow-throated scrubwren was placed in its own monotypic genus Neosericornis.{{ cite journal | last1=Norman | first1=J.A. | last2=Christidis | first2=L. | last3=Schodde | first3=R. | year=2018 | title=Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae) | journal=Organisms Diversity & Evolution | volume=18 | issue=2 | pages=241–259 | doi=10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8 | bibcode=2018ODivE..18..241N | s2cid=256015424 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bristlebirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=21 January 2019 }}

The genus contains eight species:

• Large-billed scrubwren, Sericornis magnirostra
• Tropical scrubwren or Beccari's scrubwren, Sericornis beccarii - sometimes included in S. magnirostris
• Large scrubwren, Sericornis nouhuysi
• Spotted scrubwren, Sericornis maculatus - previously included in S. frontalis
• Tasmanian scrubwren or brown scrubwren, Sericornis humilis - previously included in S. frontalis
• Atherton scrubwren, Sericornis keri
• White-browed scrubwren, Sericornis frontalis
• Perplexing scrubwren, Sericornis virgatus