Taxonomic Swap 116246 (Committed on 01-11-2022)

Tiny Hawk Accipiter superciliosus and Semicollared Hawk Accipiter collaris are in fact not members of the widespread genus Accipiter (e.g. Hughall and Stuart-Fox 2012, Oatley et al. 2015, Mindell et al. 2018). In accord with AOS-SACC (Proposal 942), we place these two species in the newly described genus Microspizias Sangster, Kirwan, Fuchs, Dickinson, Elliott, and Gregory 2021 (Sangster et al. 2021); change the scientific name of Tiny Hawk from Accipiter superciliosus to Microspizias superciliosus. Although it is clear that these two species are not members of Accipiter, their placement within Accipitridae remains unresolved; provisionally we place them following Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus.

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Added by birdwhisperer on 01 November, 2022 16:16 | Committed by birdwhisperer on 01 November, 2022
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