''Urosphena'' is a genus of

Old World warbler The Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. They are not closely related to the New World warblers. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxo ...

s in the family

Cettiidae Cettiidae is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds (" warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" assemblage. It contains the typical bush warblers ('' Cettia'') and their relatives. As a common name, cet ...

, formerly classified in the family

Sylviidae Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that includes the typical warblers ''Sylvia'', and closely related genus '' Curruca'', formerly included in ''Sylvia''. They are found in Eurasia and Africa, with the greatest diversity in the Mediterrane ...

. The genus was erected by

Robert Swinhoe Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Qing-era Taiwan (then known to Westerners as Formosa). He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as ...

in 1877. These warblers are generally brown on the upper parts and lighter in color below with a brown, gray, or yellowish wash. They are similar to genus '' Cettia'' but have shorter tails.Alström, P. et al. (2011)
"Non-monophyly and intricate morphological evolution within the avian family Cettiidae revealed by multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset"
''BMC Evolutionary Biology''. 11: 352.

Species

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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cettiidae-stub