Drymodes

Drymodes is a genus of birds in the family Petroicidae. It was traditionally held to have two species, but molecular and behavioural differences led to the split of the New Guinea populations from the northern scrub robin. The paper by Les Christidis and colleagues was published in 2011 and the IOC adopted the split in 2015:^[2]

Drymodes
Southern scrub robin (Drymodes brunneopygia)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Petroicidae
Genus:	Drymodes Gould, 1841
Type species
Drymodes brunneopygia[1] Gould, 1841
Species
3; see text

Species

The genus contains the following three species:^[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Drymodes brunneopygia	Southern scrub robin	Australia
	Drymodes superciliaris	Northern scrub robin	Northern Territory of Australia
	Drymodes beccarii	Papuan scrub robin	New Guinea and the Aru Islands