Crombec

{{Short description|Genus of birds}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Crombecs | image = Green Crombec QE dec05.jpg | image_caption = Green crombec (''Sylvietta virens'') | taxon = Sylvietta | authority = Lafresnaye, 1839 | type_species = ''Sylvietta brachyura''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/checklist?viewfamilies=250 |title= Macrosphenidae |author= |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 of African warblers. Formerly placed in the massively paraphyletic family Sylviidae, it is now considered to belong to a newly recognized family found only in Africa, Macrosphenidae.

==Taxonomy== The genus ''Sylvietta'' was introduced in 1839 by the French ornithologist Frédéric de Lafresnaye with ''Sylvietta brachyura'' Lafresnaye, the Northern crombec, as the 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 meaning "little warbler" or "woodland sprite", a diminutive of the genus ''Sylvia'' that had been introduced by 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, ''Sylvietta virens'' – west and central Africa * Lemon-bellied crombec, ''Sylvietta denti'' – west and central Africa * White-browed crombec, ''Sylvietta leucophrys'' – east-central Africa * Northern crombec, ''Sylvietta brachyura'' – east, central and west Africa * Philippa's crombec, ''Sylvietta philippae'' – acacia steppes of northwestern Somalia and adjacent Ethiopia * Red-capped crombec, ''Sylvietta ruficapilla'' – southern central Africa * Red-faced crombec, ''Sylvietta whytii'' – east Africa * Somali crombec, ''Sylvietta isabellina'' – dry acacia steppes of Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya * Long-billed crombec, ''Sylvietta rufescens'' – southern central and south Africa

==References== {{Reflist}} * '''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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