Sittiparus

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Poecile varius on plate.JPG

| image_caption = Varied tit (Sittiparus varius)

| taxon = Sittiparus

| authority = de Sélys-Longchamps, 1884

| type_species = Parus varius{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=159 |title= Paridae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Temminck & Schlegel, 1845

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Sittiparus is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae. The species in the genus were formerly included in Parus but were moved to Sittiparus when Parus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013.{{ cite journal | last1=Johansson | first1=U.S. | last2=Ekman | first2=J. | last3=Bowie | first3=R.C.K. | last4=Halvarsson | first4=P. | last5=Ohlson | first5=J.I. | last6=Price | first6=T.D. | last7=Ericson | first7=P.G.P. | year=2013 | title=A complete multilocus species phylogeny of the tits and chickadees (Aves: Paridae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=69 | issue=3 | pages=852–860 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.019 | pmid=23831453| bibcode=2013MolPE..69..852J }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Waxwings and their allies, tits & penduline tits | work=World Bird List Version 6.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waxwings/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| accessdate= 15 February 2016 }} The genus Sittiparus had originally been erected by the Belgium politician and naturalist Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1884 with the varied tit as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Selys-Longchamps | first=Edmund de | author-link=Edmond de Sélys Longchamps | year=1884 | title=Considérations sur le genre mélange (Parus) | language=French | journal=Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France | volume=9 | pages=32–78 [58] | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35675531 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=12 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=71 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482188 }}

The genus contains the following species:

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Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
120px	Sittiparus varius	Varied tit	eastern Asia in Japan, Korea, and locally in northeastern China (southern Liaoning) and extreme southeastern Russia (southern Kurile Islands)
	Sittiparus owstoni (split from S. varius){{ cite journal | last1=McKay | first1=B.D. | last2=Mays Jnr | first2=H.L. | last3=Tao | first3=C.-T. | last4=Wan | first4=D. | last5=Higuchi | first5=H. | last6=Nishium | first6=I. | year=2014 | title=Incorporating color into integrative taxonomy: analysis of the Varied Tit (Sittiparus varius) complex in East Asia | journal=Systems Biology | volume=63 | issue=4 | pages=505–517 | doi=10.1093/sysbio/syu016 | pmid=24603127| doi-access=free }}	Owston's tit	southern Izu Islands south of Japan
	Sittiparus olivaceus (split from S. varius)	Iriomote tit	south west of Japan and to the east of Taiwan
120px	Sittiparus castaneoventris (split from S. varius)	Chestnut-bellied tit	Taiwan
120px	Sittiparus semilarvatus	White-fronted tit	Philippines

The subspecies Daito varied tit, S. v. orii, became extinct in the 1940s, the only tit to have done so.