Species of Thailand
Yellow-cheeked tit
Machlolophus spilonotus
Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1850
In Thai: นกติ๊ดแก้มเหลือง
The yellow-cheeked tit (Machlolophus spilonotus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
The yellow-cheeked tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Machlolophus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade.
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Category / Seasonal Status
BCST Category: Recorded in an apparently wild state within the last 50 years
BCST Seasonal status: Resident or presumed resident
Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Paridae
- Genus
- Machlolophus
- Species
- Machlolophus spilonotus
Common names
- Thai: นกติ๊ดแก้มเหลือง
Subspecies
Machlolophus spilonotus basileus, Jean Théodore Delacour, 1932
Range: South Laos (Bolavens Plateau) and South Vietnam (South Annam)
Machlolophus spilonotus rex, Père David, 1874
Range: South China to N/W Vietnam, N/E Laos
Machlolophus spilonotus spilonotus, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1850
Range: East Himalayas and adjacent N/E Myanmar to South Tibet and S/W China
Machlolophus spilonotus subviridis, Edward Blyth, 1855
Range: N/E Indian to Myanmar, North Thailand and N/W Laos
Synonyms
- Parus spilonotus, Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1850)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
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