Banded yellow robin

The banded yellow robin or olive-yellow robin is a species of bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae that is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or [tropical moist lowland forest] and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
It is threatened by habitat loss. It has a high mortality rate due to its inability to traverse across a matrix.

Taxonomy

The banded yellow robin was described in 1879 as Eopsaltria placens by the Australian zoologist, Edward Pierson Ramsay from a specimen collected in southeastern New Guinea. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "charming" or "pleasing". The species was subsequently placed in the genus Poecilodryas. Based on a 2011 molecular genetic study by Les Christidis and coworkers, it was moved into the resurrected genus Gennaeodryas, and is now placed in a more broadly defined Eopsaltria. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.