{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | image = Timor leaf warbler.png | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2019 |title=''Phylloscopus presbytes'' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T155223332A155224802 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T155223332A155224802.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Phylloscopus presbytes | authority = (Blyth, 1870) | synonyms = }}
The '''Timor leaf warbler''' ('''''Phylloscopus presbytes''''') is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. It is found on the islands of Timor and Flores in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its closest relative is the Rote leaf warbler.
==Taxonomy== The Timor leaf warbler was formally described in 1870 as ''Sylvia presbytes'' by the English zoologist Edward Blyth based on a specimen collected on the island of Timor.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Blyth | first=Edward | author-link=Edward Blyth | year=1870 | title=Notes relating chiefly to the birds of India | journal=Ibis | series=2nd series | volume=6 | issue=22 | pages=157-176 [169] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16187108 }}</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 | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=253 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483954 }}</ref> The specific epithet is from Ancient Greek πρεσβυτης/''presbutēs'' meaning "old man".<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=presbytes | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=presbytes | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=3 August 2025 }}</ref> The Timor leaf warbler is now one of 80 species placed in the genus ''Phylloscopus'' that was introduced in 1826 by Friedrich Boie.<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=28 November 2025 }}</ref>
Two subspecies are recognised:<ref name=avilist/> * ''P. p. presbytes'' (Blyth, E, 1870) – Timor (eastern Lesser Sunda Islands) * ''P. p. floresianus'' (Dickinson, EC & Christidis, L, 2014) – Flores (western Lesser Sunda Islands)
The subspecies ''P. p. floresianus'' has sometimes been considered as a separate species, the Flores leaf warbler.<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=Bushtits, leaf warblers, reed warblers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bushtits/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=28 November 2025 }}</ref> The two subspecies have similar plumage and vocalizations,<ref name=ng>{{Cite journal | last1=Ng | first1=N.S.R. | last2=Prawiradilaga | first2=D.M. | last3=Ng | first3=E.Y.X. | last4=Suparno | last5=Ashari | first5=H. | last6=Trainor | first6=C. | last7=Verbelen | first7=P. | last8=Rheindt | first8=F.E. | date=2018 | title=A striking new species of leaf warbler from the Lesser Sundas as uncovered through morphology and genomics | journal=Scientific Reports | volume=8 | issue=1 | article-number=15646 | doi=10.1038/s41598-018-34101-7 | doi-access=free | pmc=6199301 }}</ref> but have modest differences in their mitochondrial DNA sequences.<ref name=avilist/><ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Reeve | first1=A.H. | last2=Kennedy | first2=J.D. | last3=Pujolar | first3=J.M. | last4=Petersen | first4=B. | last5=Blom | first5=M.P.K. | last6=Alström | first6=P. | last7=Haryoko | first7=T. | last8=Ericson | first8=P.G.P. | last9=Irestedt | first9=M. | last10=Nylander | first10=J.A.A. | last11=Jønsson | first11=K.A. | date=2023 | title=The formation of the Indo-Pacific montane avifauna | journal=Nature Communications | volume=14 | issue=1 | pages=8215 | doi=10.1038/s41467-023-43964-y | doi-access=free }}<!--Supp Fig 6--></ref> The Timor leaf warbler is most closely related to the Rote leaf warbler (''Phylloscopus rotiensis'').<ref name=ng/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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