Philepitta

Philepitta is a genus of bird in the family Philepittidae. Established by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1838, the genus contains the following species:^[2]

Genus Philepitta – I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1838 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Velvet asity Male Female	Philepitta castanea (Müller, 1776)	eastern Madagascar	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Schlegel's asity	Philepitta schlegeli (Schlegel, 1867)	northwestern Madagascar	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT

Philepitta
Velvet asity (Philepitta castanea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Philepittidae
Genus:	Philepitta I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1838
Type species
Philepitta sericea[1] I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1838

The genus name Philepitta is a combination of the French name philédon, for the friarbirds of the family Meliphagidae and pitta, for the birds of the genus "pitta".^[3]

Philepitta is now the type-genus of a new bird family, the Philepittidae, into which the Asites of Madagascar have been placed.^[4]