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AEGITHINIDAE - Ioras (1:4)
AEGITHINA Vieillot, 1816 F - Fauvette leucoptère Vieillot; type by monotypy = Motacilla tiphia Linnaeus, 1758  
Aegithina tiphia Common Iora
multicolor (J.F. Gmelin, 1789) iSW India, Sri Lanka
septentrionalis Koelz, 1939 vW Himalayan foothills (east to Uttarakhand)
humei E.C.S. Baker, 1922 iN, C and SE India
tiphia (Linnaeus, 1758) iHimalayan foothills (east from Uttarakhand), NE India, E Bangladesh, W Myanmar
philipi Oustalet, 18861 αiS Yunnan, N continental SE Asia (east from E Myanmar)
deignani B.P. Hall, 1957 iC and S Myanmar2
cambodiana B.P. Hall, 1957 vSE continental SE Asia
horizoptera Oberholser, 19123 vContinental SE Asia (except ranges of tiphia, philipi and cambodiana), Thai-Malay Pen., Sumatra and satellites (Nias I., Riau Arch., Lingga Arch., Bangka I.)
scapularis (Horsfield, 1821) vJava, Bali
viridis (Bonaparte, 1850)4 vBorneo (except N)
aequanimis Bangs, 19225 vN Borneo, SW Philippines (Palawan)
Aegithina nigrolutea 6  (G.F.L. Marshall, 1876) Marshall's Iora
vNW, EC and S India, Sri Lanka
Aegithina viridissima Green Iora
viridissima (Bonaparte, 1850)7 vExtreme SW continental SE Asia, Thai-Malay Pen., Sumatra (including E satellites and Batu Is.), Borneo
thapsina Oberholser, 1917 vNatuna Is. and Anamba Is. (Indonesia)
Aegithina lafresnayei Great Iora
innotata (Blyth, 1847) vContinental SE Asia (excluding NW and SE), N Thai-Malay Pen.
xanthotis (Sharpe, 1882)8 αvSE continental SE Asia
lafresnayei (Hartlaub, 1844) iC and S Thai-Malay Pen.
1 Date correction based on examination of original wrapper.
2 For support for changes see Wells et al. (2003) [Wells, 2003 #4122]. Indian birds previously given this name considered to be intergrades between multicolor and humei.
3 Includes djungkulanensis Hoogerwerf, 1962 [Hoogerwerf, 1962 #2002]; see Mees (1986) [Mees, 1986 #2631].
4 Dated 1851 by Delacour (1960) [Delacour, 1960 #1295], but see Zimmer (1926) [Zimmer, 1926 #4296].
5 Davison in Smythies (1999) [Smythies, 1999 #3667] considered trudiae Prescott, 1970 [Prescott, 1970 #3127], of Brunei Bay an intergradient population.
6 Unlikely to be monotypic; see Wells (2003) [Wells, 2003 #4122].
7 Dated 1851 by Delacour (1960) [Delacour, 1960 #1295], but see Zimmer (1926) [Zimmer, 1926 #4296].
8 For date correction see Sherborn (1934) [Sherborn, 1934 #3608].
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