Eumyias


Eumyias is a genus of birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Eumyias was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis to accommodate a single species, Muscicapa indigo, the indigo flycatcher, that had been described by Thomas Horsfield in 1821. The genus name Eumyias combines the Ancient Greek ευ/eu meaning "fine" or "beauty" with the Modern Latin myias meaning "flycatcher".
The Buru jungle flycatcher was previously placed in the genus Rhinomyias but was moved to Eumyias when a 2010 molecular phylogenetic study found that Rhinomyias was polyphyletic.
The genus contains the following 11 species:
ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Nilgiri flycatcherEumyias albicaudatusWestern Ghats
Indigo flycatcherEumyias indigomontane Sumatra, Java and Borneo
Verditer flycatcherEumyias thalassinusIndomalaya
Buru jungle flycatcherEumyias additusBuru
Turquoise flycatcherEumyias panayensisSulawesi, Moluccas and Philippines
-Matinan blue flycatcherEumyias sanfordinorth Sulawesi
-Blue-fronted blue flycatcherEumyias hoevellimontane Sulawesi
-Timor blue flycatcherEumyias hyacinthinusTimor
-Flores jungle flycatcherEumyias oscillansFlores and Sumbawa
-Sumba jungle flycatcherEumyias stresemanniSumba
Dull-blue flycatcherEumyias sordiduscentral Sri Lanka