Spotted scrubwren

The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-browed scrubwren, and is known to hybridize with that species where their ranges overlap in the Adelaide area.^[1] Genetic analysis in a 2018 study of the family found that this taxon was more divergent from the white-browed scrubwren than the Tasmanian or Atherton scrubwrens and hence proposed its reclassification as a species.^[2] It was reclassified as a species in 2019.^[3]

Spotted scrubwren
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acanthizidae
Genus:	Sericornis
Species:	S. maculatus
Binomial name
Sericornis maculatus Gould, 1847

Taxonomy

Sericornis maculatus includes the following subspecies:^[4]

• S. m. ashbyi - Mathews, 1912
• S. m. mellori - Mathews, 1912
• S. m. maculatus - Gould, 1847
• S. m. balstoni - Ogilvie-Grant, 1909