Muscicapoidea

Muscicapoidea is a superfamily belonging to the infraorder Passerides containing the Old World flycatchers, thrushes, starlings and their allies. The superfamily contains around 670 species.

Muscicapoidea
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Infraorder:	Passerida
Superfamily:	Muscicapoidea
Families
Elachuridae Cinclidae Muscicapidae Turdidae Buphagidae Sturnidae Mimidae

Within the parvorder Muscicapida, Muscicapoidea is sister to a clade containing the superfamily Certhioidea and the family Regulidae.^[1]

Classification

In 2019 Carl Oliveros and colleagues published a large molecular phylogenetic study of the passerines that included species from each of the seven families that make up the superfamily Muscicapoidea.^[1][2]

Muscicapoidea	Elachuridae – spotted elachura Cinclidae – dippers (5 species) Muscicapidae – chats, Old World flycatchers (332 species) Turdidae – thrushes (172 species) Buphagidae – oxpeckers (2 species) Sturnidae – starlings, rhabdornis (123 species) Mimidae – mockingbirds, thrashers (34 species)