Kingdom Animalia Class Aves Family Cisticolidae | Phylum Chordata Order Passeriformes Rank Genus | |
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Similar White‑tailed warbler, Black‑headed rufous warbler, Red‑capped forest warbler, Sierra Leone prinia, Black‑tailed cisticola | ||
Scepomycter is a genus of threatened birds in the Cisticolidae family. The two species are endemic to highland forests in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. They are small, mainly grey birds with a reddish-orange head.
Taxonomy
The Rubeho warbler is a cryptic species only described as separate from the Winifred's warbler in 2009. Winifred's warbler (and by association, the Rubeho warbler) have sometimes been included in the genus Bathmocercus.
References
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