Xanthotis

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = PtilotisPolygrammaSmit.jpg

| image_caption = Spotted honeyeater (Xanthotis polygrammus)

| taxon = Xanthotis

| authority = Reichenbach, 1852

| type_species = Xanthotis flaviventris{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=119 |title= Melaphagidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Reichenbach, 1852

}}

Xanthotis is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

The genus contains three 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 | year=2020 | title=Honeyeaters | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/honeyeaters/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=22 February 2020 }}

• Spotted honeyeater (Xanthotis polygrammus)
• Macleay's honeyeater (Xanthotis macleayanus)
• Tawny-breasted honeyeater (Xanthotis flaviventer)

The Kadavu honeyeater (Meliphacator provocator) was formerly included in this genus. It was moved to its own genus Meliphacator based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2019.{{ cite journal | last1=Andersen | first1=M.J. | last2=McCullough | first2=J.M. | last3=Friedman | first3=N.R. | last4=Peterson | first4=A.T. | last5=Moyle | first5=R.G. | last6=Joseph | first6=L. | last7=Nyári | first7=A.S. | year=2019 | title=Ultraconserved elements resolve genus-level relationships in a major Australasian bird radiation (Aves: Meliphagidae) | journal=Emu | volume=119 | issue=3 | pages=218–232 | doi=10.1080/01584197.2019.1595662 | bibcode=2019EmuAO.119..218A }}