[Ben Wielstra]

Not in abstract: "The Sulawesi endemic Malia, which until now was classified in Timaliidae, was also recovered within Locustellidae sister to Megalurus timoriensis with high node support, although we did not have enough sampling in the family to determine its position in more detail."

[DMW]

Originally Posted by Ben Wielstra

Not in abstract: "The Sulawesi endemic Malia, which until now was classified in Timaliidae, was also recovered within Locustellidae sister to Megalurus timoriensis with high node support, although we did not have enough sampling in the family to determine its position in more detail."

Blimey, wouldn't have expected that!

[jacana]

IOC currently have Malia in Pycnonotidae so it's been bounced around the groups a fair bit of late!

[Richard Klim]

Originally Posted by Richard Klim

Oliveros, Reddy & Moyle (in press). The phylogenetic position of some Philippine "babblers" spans the muscicapoid and sylvioid bird radiations. Mol Phylogenet Evol. [abstract]

Suggests revised English names: 'Bagobo Robin' for Leonardina woodi; 'ground-warblers' for Robsonius spp; and 'plumed warblers' for Micromacronus spp.

[l_raty]

Originally Posted by Ben Wielstra

Not in abstract: "The Sulawesi endemic Malia, which until now was classified in Timaliidae, was also recovered within Locustellidae sister to Megalurus timoriensis with high node support, although we did not have enough sampling in the family to determine its position in more detail."

'Don't know whether they actually got more sequences from Malia than in the still reasonably recent Moyle et al. Syst. Biol. paper...?

GenBank has a complete ND3 (351 bp), and a half ND2 (524 bp), both from this study. (While the recent tree is apparently based on CytB, ND2, ND3, TGF, Fib5, and MUSK.)
ND3 has been sequenced for a couple of Locustellidae spp only, hence is not very useful, but ND2 has a very reasonnable sampling in this family.
The tree in attachment is based on the part of ND2 that has been sequenced for Malia. Based on this, Malia would seem closer to Megalurus timoriensis than the latter is to M. gramineus (and to M. palustris), with rather reasonnable support.

Megalurus gratus...?

(Of course it's only 524 bp of mitochondrial DNA, but still...)