Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Sylviida: Aegithaloidea

Distribution: Eurasia, Africa, Wallacea, Oceania

Number of extant genera: 7 [Urosphena neumanni and U. pallidipes are sometimes placed in a separate genus, Hemitesia. 

Number of extant species: ~31

References

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