Family Muscicapidae Fleming 1822 (flycatcher)

Aves - Passeriformes - Muscicapidae

Parent taxon: Passeriformes according to J. F. Clements et al. 2017

See also Chandler 1990, Olson and James 1982, Parmalee 1992 and Zuccon et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Acanthisittidae, Acanthizidae, Acrocephalidae, Alaudidae, Artamidae, Atrichornithidae, Bernieridae, Bombycillidae, Calcariidae, Callaeidae, Calyptophilidae, Campephagidae, Cardinalidae, Certhiidae, Cinclidae, Cinclosomatidae, Climacteridae, Coerebidae, Corvidae, Corvitalusoides, Cracticidae, Dasyornithidae, Dicaeidae, Dulidae, Emberizidae, Eopsaltriidae, Estrildidae, Eurylaimidae, Formicaroidae, Fringillidae, Fringilloidae, Furnariidae, Hirundinidae, Icteridae, Laniidae, Locustellidae, Macrosphenidae, Maluridae, Meliphagidae, Menurae, Mimidae, Mohoidae, Mohouidae, Monarchidae, Motacillidae, Nectariniidae, Oriolidae, Orthonychidae, Oscines, Pachycephalidae, Paradisaeidae, Paridae, Parulidae, Passerellidae, Passeres, Passeridae, Petroicidae, Phaenicophilidae, Phylloscopidae, Pipridae, Ploceidae, Polioptilidae, Prunellidae, Psophodidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Pycnonotidae, Rhinocryptidae, Rhipiduridae, Scotocercidae, Scytalopidae, Sittidae, Spindalidae, Sturnidae, Sylviidae, Thamnophilidae, Thraupidae, Tichodromidae, Tityridae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Tyrannidae, Vangidae, Vireonidae, Wieslochia, Winnicavis, Yunnanus, Zosteropidae

Subtaxa: Erithacus Ficedula Luscinia Monticola Muscicapa Muscicapinae Oenanthe Phoenicurus Saxicola

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Ecology: volant insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (3 collections), Greece (6), Italy (6), Japan (1), Spain (11), the United Kingdom (5), Yemen (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1)

Total: 35 collections including 67 occurrences

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