Chestnut-headed tesia
Species of bird
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The chestnut-headed tesia (Cettia castaneocoronata) is a small insectivorous songbird formerly of the "Old World warbler" family but nowadays placed in the bush warbler family (Cettiidae).
| Chestnut-headed tesia | |
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| Doi Lang, Chiang Mai, Thailand | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cettiidae |
| Genus: | Cettia |
| Species: | C. castaneocoronata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cettia castaneocoronata (Burton, 1836) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tesia castaneocoronata | |
Location and habitat
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Taxonomy
The chestnut-headed tesia was formally described by the English army officer and zoologist Edward Burton in 1836 under the binomial name Sylvia castaneocoronata.[3] The specific epithet combines the Latin castaneus meaning "chestnut-coloured" and coronatus meaning "crowned".[4] Formerly placed in the genus Tesia, a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011 found that the chestnut-headed tesia was embedded in a clade containing members of the genus Cettia.[5][6]
The phylogenetic relationships among the Cettia species are shown below, based on the data by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.[7]
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It split from the Chestnut-crowned bush warbler about 5 million years ago.
Three subspecies are recognised:[6]