Nesoptilotis

Nesoptilotis is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to Australia and Tasmania. The genus consists of two former members of Lichenostomus, and was created after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.^[2]

Nesoptilotis
Nesoptilotis leucotis (white-eared honeyeater)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Meliphagidae
Genus:	Nesoptilotis Mathews, 1913
Type species
Ptilotis flavigula[1] Gould, 1838

The genus contains two species:^[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	N. flavicollis	Yellow-throated honeyeater	Tasmania
	N. leucotis	White-eared honeyeater	southwest, south and east Australia

The name Nesoptilotis was first proposed by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1913.^[4][5] The word is derived from the Greek nēsos island (i.e. Tasmania), ptilon feather and -ōtis eared.^[6]