The family Rhipiduridae are small

insectivorous A robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant which eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which can also refer to the human practice of eating insects. The first vertebrate insectivores we ...

birds of

Australasia Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different context ...

, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent that includes the fantails and silktails.

Taxonomy and systematics

The family contains 55 species which are divided into four genera: * Subfamily Rhipidurinae: **''

Rhipidura Fantails are small insectivorous songbirds of the genus ''Rhipidura'' in the family (biology), family Rhipiduridae, native to Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Most of the species are about long, specialist aerial feeders ...

'' – typical fantails (51 species) *Subfamily Lamproliinae: **'' Chaetorhynchus'' – drongo fantail **'' Eutrichomyias'' – cerulean flycatcher **''

Lamprolia The silktails are a group of birds endemic to Fiji. The two species ( Taveuni silktail and Natewa silktail) are placed in the genus ''Lamprolia''. They look superficially like a diminutive bird-of-paradise but are actually closely related to the ...

'' – silktails (2 species)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q847173 Bird families Birds of Oceania