{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | image = CossyphaLeucostictaSmit.jpg | image_caption = Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1883 | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International. |year=2018 |title=''Tychaedon leucosticta'' |volume=2018 |article-number=e.T22709882A132083511 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22709882A132083511.en |access-date=16 February 2025}}</ref> | genus = Tychaedon | species = leucosticta | authority = (Sharpe, 1883) | synonyms = ''Erythropygia leucosticta''<br /> ''Cossypha leucosticta''<br /> ''Cercotrichas leucosticta'' }} [[File:Tychaedon leucosticta - Irene - 600421134.jpeg|left|thumb|Live bird in Angola]] The '''forest scrub robin''' ('''''Tychaedon leucosticta''''') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is disjunctly present throughout the African tropical rainforest. This species was formerly placed in the genus ''Cercotrichas''.
Four subspecies are recognised:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=12 March 2025}}</ref> * ''T. l. colstoni'' (Tye, 1991) – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast * ''T. l. leucosticta'' (Sharpe, 1883) – Ghana * ''T. l. collsi'' (Alexander, 1907) – southeast Central African Republic, northeast DR Congo and west Uganda * ''T. l. reichenowi'' (Hartert, EJO, 1907) – west Angola
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forest scrub robin Category:Birds of the African tropical rainforest forest scrub robin Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN <!-- Cercotrichas leucosticta -->
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