Aegithalos

The genus Aegithalos was introduced in 1804 by the French naturalist Johann Hermann to accommodate a single species, Pipra europaea Hermann, 1804.^[1] This is a junior synonym of Parus caudatus Linnaeus, 1758, the long-tailed tit.^[2][3] The genus name is a term used by Aristotle for some European tits, including the long-tailed tit.^[4]

The genus contains the following eight species:^[5]

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Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Long-tailed tit	Aegithalos caudatus	northern Europe and the Palearctic, into boreal Scandinavia and south into the Mediterranean zone
	Silver-throated bushtit	Aegithalos glaucogularis	central and eastern China and south towards Yunnan
	White-cheeked bushtit	Aegithalos leucogenys	Afghanistan, Kashmir region, and Pakistan.
	Black-throated bushtit	Aegithalos concinnus	foothills of the Himalayas, stretching across northern India through north-eastern Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, northern Myanmar, China, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
	White-throated bushtit	Aegithalos niveogularis	India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
	Black-browed bushtit	Aegithalos iouschistos	eastern and central Himalayas in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and far northern Burma
	Sooty bushtit	Aegithalos fuliginosus	central China.
	Pygmy bushtit	Aegithalos exilis	Indonesia

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• Aegithalos gaspariki (Late Miocene of Polgardi, Hungary) ^[6]
• Aegithalos congruis (Pliocene of Csarnota, Hungary) ^[6]