Tychaedon
''Tychaedon'' is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that are found in Sub-Saharan Africa. It contains species that were formerly placed in the genus ''Cercotrichas''. Taxonomy The species now placed in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''Cercotrichas''. A molecular phylogenetic study of the family Muscicapidae published in 2023 found that ''Cercotrichas'' was paraphyletic. In the rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, some species were moved to the resurrected genus ''Tychaedon''. This genus had been erected in 1917 by the American ornithologist Charles Wallace Richmond as a replacement name for ''Aedonopsis'' that had been introduced by Richard Bowdler Sharpe 1883. The type species is ''Cossypha signata'' Carl Jakob Sundevall, Sundevall, 1850, the brown scrub robin. The genus name ''Tychaedon'' combines Ancient Greek τυχη/''tukhē'' meaning "chance" or "luck" with αηδων/''aēdōn'', αηδονος/''aēdonos'' m ...
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