The genus
Tarsiger was introduced in 1845 by the English naturalist
Brian Houghton Hodgson with the
golden bush robin as the
type species. The genus name is from
Ancient Greek tarsos, "flat of the foot" and
Latin gerere, "to carry". The genus contains the following eight species: •
White-browed bush robin (
Tarsiger indicus) •
Taiwan bush robin (
Tarsiger formosanus) (split from
T. indicus) •
Golden bush robin (
Tarsiger chrysaeus) •
Collared bush robin (
Tarsiger johnstoniae) •
Rufous-breasted bush robin (
Tarsiger hyperythrus) •
Red-flanked bluetail (
Tarsiger cyanurus) •
Qilian bluetail (
Tarsiger albocoeruleus) (split from
T. cyanurus) •
Himalayan bluetail (
Tarsiger rufilatus) The Himalayan bluetail was formerly treated as a
subspecies of the red-flanked bluetail. The phylogenetic relationships between the species were determined in a
molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022: |1= |2= }} }} }} ==References==