Pale-billed scrubwren

The pale-billed scrubwren (Aethomyias spilodera) is a bird species in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in the Aru Islands and New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pale-billed scrubwren
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Aethomyias
Species:
A. spilodera
Binomial name
Aethomyias spilodera
(Gray, 1859)
Subspecies
  • A. s. ferrugineus - (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932)
  • A. s. spilodera - (Gray, GR, 1859)
  • A. s. granti - Hartert, 1930
  • A. s. guttatus - Sharpe, 1882
  • A. s. aruensis - (Ogilvie-Grant, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Sericornis spilodera

This species was formerly placed in the genus Sericornis but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias.

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