Timor cicadabird

The Timor cicadabird is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the islands of Lembata, Alor and Timor in Indonesia. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.

Taxonomy

The Timor cicadabird was formally described in 1878 by English ornithologist Richard [Bowdler Sharpe] based on a specimen collected by Adolf Bernhard Meyer on the island of Timor, Indonesia. Sharpe coined the binomial name Edoliisoma timoriense. The Timor cicadabird was formerly treated as conspecific with the common cicadabird . It has been elevated to species status based on the differences in morphology and a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018.
Three subspecies are recognised:

E. t. kalaotuae Meise, 1929 – Kalaotoa
E. t. emancipatum Hartert, EJO, 1896 – Tanah Jampea
E. t. timoriense Sharpe, 1878 – Lembata, Alor Island and Timor