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[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

I seem to have read in the past a study which showed that the genera Moho and Chaetoptila were paraphyletic

 

[l_raty]

I seem to have read in the past a study which showed that the genera Moho and Chaetoptila were paraphyletic

In this tree, Chaetoptila is sister to (Moho bishopi + M. apicalis), to the exclusion of M. braccatus and M. nobilis. But the support of the relevant node (PP = 0.51) is ridiculously low, hence this is certainly best ignored. In Fleischer et al 2008, the relationships within Mohoidae were unresolved. (Fleischer et al 2008 are the only ones to have sequenced more than one Mohoidae. The only other work that addressed a Mohoidae was Oliveros et al 2019, but they sequenced only one species.)

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Do you know if Prinia buchanani is the only species of Prinia to build nests in the same way as Orthotomus, i.e. by weaving them?