Drymodes


Drymodes is a genus of birds in the family Petroicidae. It was traditionally held to have two species, but molecular and behavioural differences led to the split of the New Guinea populations from the northern scrub robin. The paper by Les Christidis and colleagues was published in 2011 and the IOC adopted the split in 2015:

Species

The genus contains the following three species:
ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Drymodes brunneopygiaSouthern scrub robinAustralia
Drymodes superciliarisNorthern scrub robinNorthern Territory of Australia
Drymodes beccariiPapuan scrub robinNew Guinea and the Aru Islands