Pale-billed scrubwren

Pale-billed scrubwren
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Aethomyias
Species:
A. spilodera
Binomial name
Aethomyias spilodera
(Gray, 1859)
Subspecies
  • A. s. ferrugineus - (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932)
  • A. s. spilodera - (Gray, GR, 1859)
  • A. s. granti - Hartert, 1930
  • A. s. guttatus - Sharpe, 1882
  • A. s. aruensis - (Ogilvie-Grant, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Sericornis spilodera

The pale-billed scrubwren (Aethomyias spilodera) is a bird species in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in the Aru Islands and New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Sericornis but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias.