Kempiella
Genus of birds
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Kempiella is a genus of birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae that are found in Australia and New Guinea.
| Kempiella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Petroicidae |
| Genus: | Kempiella Mathews, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Kempiella kempi[1] Mathews, 1913 | |
| Species | |
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The genus was introduced by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1913 with the yellow-legged flyrobin (Kempiella griseoceps) as the type species.[2] The two species in this genus were formerly placed in genus Microeca. They were moved to the resurrected genus Kempiella based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[3]
Species
The genus contains the following two species:[4]
- Yellow-legged flyrobin (Kempiella griseoceps)
- Olive flyrobin (Kempiella flavovirescens)
