Curruca

Curruca
Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sylviidae
Genus:	Curruca Bechstein, 1802
Type species
Motacilla curruca Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Many, see text
Synonyms
Parisoma Swainson 1832. type Sylvia subcaerulea Vieillot.

Curruca is a genus of Sylviid warblers, best represented in Europe, Africa, and Asia. All of these species were formerly placed in the genus Sylvia.

Taxonomy

The genus Curruca was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802. The type species (by tautonomy) is the lesser whitethroat Curruca curruca. The name Curruca is the Latin word for an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Roman poet Juvenal. The genus was split from Sylvia in the Howard and Moore Checklist in 2014 after a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011. The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.

Species

The genus contains 25 species:

• Barred warbler, Curruca nisoria
• Layard's warbler, Curruca layardi
• Banded parisoma, Curruca boehmi
• Chestnut-vented warbler, Curruca subcoerulea
• Lesser whitethroat, Curruca curruca
• Brown parisoma, Curruca lugens
• Yemen warbler, Curruca buryi
• Arabian warbler, Curruca leucomelaena
• Western Orphean warbler, Curruca hortensis
• Eastern Orphean warbler, Curruca crassirostris
• African desert warbler, Curruca deserti
• Asian desert warbler, Curruca nana
• Tristram's warbler, Curruca deserticola
• Menetries's warbler, Curruca mystacea
• Rüppell's warbler, Curruca ruppeli
• Cyprus warbler, Curruca melanothorax
• Sardinian warbler, Curruca melanocephala
• Western subalpine warbler, Curruca iberiae
• Moltoni's warbler, Curruca subalpina
• Eastern subalpine warbler, Curruca cantillans
• Common whitethroat, Curruca communis
• Spectacled warbler, Curruca conspicillata
• Marmora's warbler, Curruca sarda
• Dartford warbler, Curruca undata
• Balearic warbler, Curruca balearica