| Grey-rumped swallow | |
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| Grey-rumped Swallow | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Hirundinidae |
| Genus: | Pseudhirundo Roberts, 1922 |
| Species: | P. griseopyga |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudhirundo griseopyga (Sundevall, 1850) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Hirundo griseopyga griseopygaSibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) | |
Thegrey-rumped swallow (Pseudhirundo griseopyga) is aspecies ofswallow. It is theonly member of the genusPseudhirundo.
It is found inAngola,Benin,Botswana,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Republic of the Congo,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Ivory Coast,Equatorial Guinea,Eswatini,Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Kenya,Liberia,Malawi,Mali,Mozambique,Namibia,Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda,Senegal,Sierra Leone,South Africa,Sudan,Tanzania,Uganda,Zambia, andZimbabwe.
Phylogenetic analysis has shown that the grey-rumped swallow is most closely related to thewhite-backed swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna) that is found in Australia.[2]
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