Spodiopsar

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Calling Spodiopsar sericeus.jpg

| image_caption = Red-billed starling
(Spodiopsar sericeus )

| taxon = Spodiopsar

| authority = Sharpe, 1889

| type_species = Sturnus sericeus{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=181 |title= Sturnidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-15}}

| type_species_authority = J.F. Gmelin, 1789

}}

Spodiopsar is a genus of Asian birds in the family Sturnidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Spodiopsar was introduced in 1889 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe. The name was to replace Poliopsar, introduced by Sharpe in 1888, which was preoccupied by Poliopsar Cassin, 1867.{{ cite journal | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | author1-link=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | date=1889 | title=Letter to the editor | journal=Ibis | series=6th series |volume=1 | page=580 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16280960 }}{{ cite journal | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | author1-link=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | date=1888 | title=On two new species of starling | journal=Ibis | series=5th series |volume=1 | pages=476–477 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16280228 }}{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=2: Passerines | edition=4th | location=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=575 }} Sharpe subsequently designated the type species as Sturnus sericeus J.F. Gmelin, 1789, the red-billed starling.{{ cite book | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | author1-link=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | year=1890 | title=Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Sturnformes, Containing the families Artamidae, Sturnidae, Ploceidae, Alaudidae. Also the Families Ateichiidae and Menuridae | series=Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum | volume=13 | location=London | publisher=Trustees of the British Museum | page=40| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8327982 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek spodios meaning "ash-coloured" and psar meaning "starling".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=363 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n363/mode/1up }}

The genus contains two species.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2023 | title=Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, mockingbirds, starlings, oxpeckers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/nuthatch/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=13 August 2023 }}

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
class="wikitable"
120px	Spodiopsar sericeus	Red-billed starling	south and southeastern China
120px	Spodiopsar cineraceus	White-cheeked starling	central and north-east India, China, Korea, Japan and south-east Siberia

References

Category:Bird genera