Kempiella

Kempiella is a genus of birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae that are found in Australia and New Guinea.

Kempiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Petroicidae
Genus:	Kempiella Mathews, 1913
Type species
Kempiella kempi[1] Mathews, 1913
Species
see text

The genus was introduced by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1913 with the yellow-legged flyrobin (Kempiella griseoceps) as the type species.^[2] The two species in this genus were formerly placed in genus Microeca. They were moved to the resurrected genus Kempiella based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.^[3]

Species

The genus contains the following two species:^[4]

• Yellow-legged flyrobin (Kempiella griseoceps)
• Olive flyrobin (Kempiella flavovirescens)