# Crombec

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{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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| name = Crombecs
| image = Green Crombec QE dec05.jpg
| image_caption = [Green crombec](/source/Green_crombec) (''Sylvietta virens'')
| taxon = Sylvietta
| authority = [Lafresnaye](/source/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_de_Lafresnaye), 1839
| type_species = ''[Sylvietta brachyura](/source/Northern_crombec)''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/checklist?viewfamilies=250 |title= Macrosphenidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = Lafresnaye, 1839
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
9-10, see text
}}

'''''Sylvietta''''', the '''crombecs''', is a [genus](/source/genus) of [African warbler](/source/African_warbler)s. Formerly placed in the massively [paraphyletic](/source/paraphyletic) family [Sylviidae](/source/Sylviidae), it is now considered to belong to a newly recognized family found only in Africa, [Macrosphenidae](/source/Macrosphenidae).

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Sylvietta'' was introduced in 1839 by the French ornithologist [Frédéric de Lafresnaye](/source/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_de_Lafresnaye) with ''Sylvietta brachyura'' Lafresnaye, the [Northern crombec](/source/Northern_crombec), as the [type species](/source/type_species).<ref>{{ cite journal | last=de Lafresnaye | first=Frédéric | author-link=Frédéric de Lafresnaye | date=1839 | title=Quelques nouvelles espèce d'oiseaux | language=French | journal=Revue Zoologique | volume=2 | pages=257-259 [258] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2299449 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=207 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483908 }}</ref> The genus name is [Modern Latin](/source/Modern_Latin) meaning "little warbler" or "woodland sprite", a diminutive of the genus ''[Sylvia](/source/Sylvia_(bird))'' that had been introduced by [Giovanni Antonio Scopoli](/source/Giovanni_Antonio_Scopoli) in 1769.<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Sylvietta | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Sylvietta | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=21 March 2026 }}</ref>

The genus contains the following nine species:<ref name=avilist>{{ cite web | author=AviList Core Team | date=2025 | title=AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025 | doi=10.2173/avilist.v2025 | doi-access=free | url=http://www.avilist.org/checklist/v2025/ | access-date=21 March 2026 }}</ref>
* [Green crombec](/source/Green_crombec), ''Sylvietta virens'' – west and central Africa
* [Lemon-bellied crombec](/source/Lemon-bellied_crombec), ''Sylvietta denti'' – west and central Africa
* [White-browed crombec](/source/White-browed_crombec), ''Sylvietta leucophrys'' – east-central Africa
* [Northern crombec](/source/Northern_crombec), ''Sylvietta brachyura'' – east, central and west Africa
* [Philippa's crombec](/source/Philippa's_crombec), ''Sylvietta philippae'' – acacia steppes of northwestern Somalia and adjacent Ethiopia
* [Red-capped crombec](/source/Red-capped_crombec), ''Sylvietta ruficapilla'' – southern central Africa
* [Red-faced crombec](/source/Red-faced_crombec), ''Sylvietta whytii'' – east Africa
* [Somali crombec](/source/Somali_crombec), ''Sylvietta isabellina'' – dry acacia steppes of Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya
* [Long-billed crombec](/source/Long-billed_crombec), ''Sylvietta rufescens'' – southern central and south Africa

==References==
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* '''Del Hoyo''', J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions. {{ISBN|84-96553-06-X}}.

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