Curruca

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.

Curruca
Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca)
Scientific classification
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.[1]

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.^[2][3][4] The name Curruca is the Latin word for an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Roman poet Juvenal.^[5] The genus was split from Sylvia in the Howard and Moore Checklist in 2014 after a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.^[6] The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.^[7]

Species

The genus contains 25 species:^[8]

• 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