Platysteira

Platysteira
Brown-throated wattle-eye (Platysteira cyanea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Platysteiridae
Genus: Platysteira
Jardine & Selby, 1830
Type species
Muscicapa melanoptera
Gmelin, 1789
Species

See text.

Platysteira is a genus of birds in the wattle-eye family Platysteiridae that are found in tropical Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus Platysteira was introduced in 1830 by the English naturalists William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek πλατυς/platus meaning "broad" with στειρα/steira meaning "ship's keel".[2] Jardine and Selby did not specify a type species but in 1840 the English zoologist George Gray designated the type as Muscicapa melanoptera Gmelin, 1789.[3] This is a junior synonym of Muscicapa cyanea, Müller, PLS, 1776, the brown-throated wattle-eye.[4]

The genus contains the following eight species:[5]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Brown-throated wattle-eyePlatysteira cyaneaWest and central Africa.
White-fronted wattle-eyePlatysteira albifronsLowlands and escarpment of western Angola and adjacent southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Black-throated wattle-eyePlatysteira peltataCentral, east and southeast Africa.
Banded wattle-eyePlatysteira laticinctaBamenda Mountains (western Cameroon).
Red-cheeked wattle-eyePlatysteira blissettiHumid forest of Guinea and southern Sierra Leone to southern Cameroon.
Black-necked wattle-eyePlatysteira chalybeaHumid forest of southern Cameroon and Gabon; Bioko.
Jameson's wattle-eyePlatysteira jamesoniEastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, far southern South Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, and far northwestern Tanzania.
Yellow-bellied wattle-eyePlatysteira concretaWest and central Africa.

References

  1. ↑ Jardine, William; Selby, Prideaux John (1830). Illustrations of Ornithology. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars. Part 7. Addenda, p. 2. Issued in parts. For the publication date see: Zimmer, John T. (1926). "Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library". Field Museum of Natural History, Zoology Series. 16 (1): 322–324.
  2. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Platysteira". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
  3. ↑ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 31.
  4. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World (PDF). Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  5. ↑ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.


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