Curruca
Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sylviidae
Genus:	Curruca Bechstein, 1802
Type species
Motacilla curruca Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Many, see text
Synonyms
ParisomaSwainson 1832. typeSylvia subcaeruleaVieillot.[1]

Curruca is a genus of Sylviid warblers, best represented inEurope,Africa, andAsia. All of these species were formerly placed in the genusSylvia.

The genusCurruca was introduced by the German naturalistJohann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802. Thetype species (bytautonomy) is thelesser whitethroatCurruca curruca.^[2][3][4] The nameCurruca is the Latin word for an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Roman poetJuvenal.^[5] The genus was split fromSylvia in theHoward and Moore Checklist in 2014 after amolecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.^[6] The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.^[7]

The genus contains 25 species:^[8]

• Barred warbler,Curruca nisoria – breeds central Palearctics; winters east Africa
• Layard's warbler,Curruca layardi – southwest Africa
• Banded parisoma,Curruca boehmi – northeast Africa
• Chestnut-vented warbler,Curruca subcoerulea – south Africa
• Lesser whitethroat,Curruca curruca – breeds in Palearctic; winters Africa, south Asia, India
• Brown parisoma,Curruca lugens – northeast Africa
• Yemen warbler,Curruca buryi – montane southwest Saudi Arabia and southwest Yemen (southwestArabian Peninsula)
• Arabian warbler,Curruca leucomelaena – disjunctly from southeast Egypt and northeast Sudan to west, southArabian Peninsula
• Western Orphean warbler,Curruca hortensis – breeds southwest Europe and northwest Africa; winters west Africa Senegal to Chad
• Eastern Orphean warbler,Curruca crassirostris – breeds southeast Europe to central Asia; winters northeast Africa to south Arabian Peninsula, south Iran, south Pakistan, India
• African desert warbler,Curruca deserti – Morocco to west Libya and Niger
• Asian desert warbler,Curruca nana – breeds north Iran to Mongolia and northwest China; winters northeast Africa and Asia Minor
• Tristram's warbler,Curruca deserticola – northwest Africa
• Menetries's warbler,Curruca mystacea – breeds central south Palearctic; winters northeast Africa, Arabian Peninsula
• Rüppell's warbler,Curruca ruppeli – breeds south Greece, Crete, Turkey and Syria; winters northeast Africa
• Cyprus warbler,Curruca melanothorax – breedsCyprus; winters Egypt, Sudan
• Sardinian warbler,Curruca melanocephala – breeds southwest Palearctic; winters north Africa
• Western subalpine warbler,Curruca iberiae – breeds Iberia, south France, and extreme northwest Italy. Also northwest Africa from Morocco to Tunisia; winters northwest, west Africa
• Moltoni's warbler,Curruca subalpina – northwest to central north Italy,Corsica,Sardinia, Balearics
• Eastern subalpine warbler,Curruca cantillans – breeds northeast Italy through southeast Europe to west Turkey. Also south Italy and Sicily; winters north Africa
• Common whitethroat,Curruca communis – breeds Palearctic; winters Africa
• Spectacled warbler,Curruca conspicillata – breeds southwest Palearctic; winters northwest, north Africa
• Marmora's warbler,Curruca sarda – breeds Mediterranean Islands; winters northwest Africa
• Dartford warbler,Curruca undata – southwest Palearctic
• Balearic warbler,Curruca balearica –Balearic Islands

• Curruca
• Bird genera
• Taxa named by Johann Matthäus Bechstein

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