Looking at the Leiothrichidae tree it's difficult to resist the urge to chip away at the remainder of the larger laughingthrush genera eg. Strophocincla for some of the plainer species currently in Trochalopteron?
If you want to separate the genus in two (that's what I did, personally), use
Pterocyclus instead of
Strophocincla . For me, the genus
Trochalopteron consists of the following species:
Trochalopteron austeni Godwin-Austen, 1870
Trochalopteron imbricatum (Blyth, 1843)
Trochalopteron lineatum (Vigors, 1831)
Trochalopteron squamatum (Gould, 1835)
Trochalopteron subunicolor Blyth, 1843
Trochalopteron virgatum Godwin-Austen, 1874
The remaining becomes
Pterocyclus .
I like the names you created for certain laughingthrush clades on another thread (I wont quote them and ruin the googlewhack
) and have used some in my notes.
Spodiocara [literally grey head] (for Argya cinereifrons), Daphoenocichla [red thrush] (as a subgenus of Liocichla, but I realized that it was useless), and Leucocrotapha [white temple] (as a new genus for ''Yuhina'' diademata, now Parayuhina)
Parayuhina, Paragallinula, Paraclaravis, it's an overdose of Para-something
The three species of Dasycrotapha have nothing in common, plateni and pygmaea merit their own genus (''Ixocerthia")
Re. the three species of 'laughingthrush' relocated elsewhere. I imagine these should probably be renamed 'babbler'
which?