Spodiopsar

Spodiopsar is a genus of Asian birds in the family Sturnidae.

Spodiopsar
Red-billed starling (Spodiopsar sericeus )
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sturnidae
Genus:	Spodiopsar Sharpe, 1889
Type species
Sturnus sericeus[1] J.F. Gmelin, 1789

Taxonomy

The genus Spodiopsar was introduced in 1889 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe. The name was to replace Poliopsar, introduced by Sharpe in 1888, which was preoccupied by Poliopsar Cassin, 1867.^[2][3][4] Sharpe subsequently designated the type species as Sturnus sericeus J.F. Gmelin, 1789, the red-billed starling.^[4][5] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek spodios meaning "ash-coloured" and psar meaning "starling".^[6]

The genus contains two species.^[7]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Spodiopsar sericeus	Red-billed starling	south and southeastern China
	Spodiopsar cineraceus	White-cheeked starling	central and north-east India, China, Korea, Japan and south-east Siberia