Editing Typical warbler (section)

==Taxonomy and systematics==
The genus ''Sylvia'' was introduced in 1769 by the Italian naturalist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Scopoli | first=Giovanni Antonio | author-link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli  | year=1769 | title=Annus I historico-naturalis | language=la | place=Lipsiae (Leipzig) | publisher= C.G. Hilscheri | page=154 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31117781 }}</ref> Scopoli did not specify a [[type species]] but this was designated as the [[Eurasian blackcap]] (''Sylvia atricapilla'') by [[Charles Lucien Bonaparte]] in 1828.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1828 | title=American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given By Wilson | location=Philadelphia | publisher=Carey, Lea & Carey | volume=2 | page=17 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58156722 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11 | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=270 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483971 }}</ref> The genus name is from [[Neo-Latin|Modern Latin]] ''silvia'', a woodland sprite, related to ''silva'' meaning "a wood".<ref name=job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n376 376]}}</ref>

The typical warblers are now known to form a major lineage in a [[clade]] containing also the [[parrotbill]]s and some [[taxa]] formerly considered to be [[Old World babbler]]s.<ref name=Alstrom>{{cite journal | last1 = Alström | first1 = P. | last2 = Ericson | first2 = P. G. P. | last3 = Olsson | first3 = U. | last4 = Sundberg | first4 = P. | year = 2006 | title = Phylogeny and classification of the avian superfamily Sylvioidea | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 38 | issue = 2| pages = 381–397 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.05.015 | pmid = 16054402 | bibcode = 2006MolPE..38..381A }}</ref><ref name=Cibois>{{ cite journal | last1=Cibois | first1=Alice | year=2003 | title=Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of babblers (Timaliidae) | journal=The Auk | volume=120 | issue=1 | pages=35–54 | doi= 10.1642/0004-8038(2003)120[0035:MDPOBT]2.0.CO;2 | jstor=4090138 }}</ref> The other "Old World warblers" have been moved to their own families, entirely redelimiting the [[Sylviidae]].<ref name="Cai_etal2019">{{Cite journal | last1=Cai | first1=T. | last2=Cibois | first2=A. | last3=Alström | first3=P. | last4=Moyle | first4=R.G. | last5=Kennedy | first5=J.D. | last6=Shao | first6=S. | last7=Zhang | first7=R. | last8=Irestedt | first8=M. | last9=Ericson | first9=P.G.P. | last10=Gelang | first10=M. | last11=Qu | first11=Y. | last12=Lei | first12=F. | last13=Fjeldså | first13=J. | date=2019 | title=Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=130 | pages=346–356 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010 | doi-access=free | pmid=30321696 | bibcode=2019MolPE.130..346C }}</ref>

A [[molecular phylogenetic]] study using [[mitochondrial]] DNA sequence data published in 2011 found that the species in the genus ''Sylvia'' formed two distinct clades.<ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Voelker | first1=Gary | last2=Light | first2=Jessica E. | year=2011 | title=Palaeoclimatic events, dispersal and migratory losses along the Afro-European axis as drivers of biogeographic distribution in ''Sylvia'' warblers | journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume=11 | issue=163 | page=163 | doi=10.1186/1471-2148-11-163 | doi-access=free | pmid=21672229 | pmc=3123607| bibcode=2011BMCEE..11..163V }}</ref> Based on these results, the ornithologists [[Edward C. Dickinson|Edward Dickinson]] and [[Leslie Christidis]] in the fourth edition of ''[[Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World]]'', chose to split the genus and moved most of the species into a resurrected genus ''[[Curruca]]'' retaining only the [[Eurasian blackcap]] and the [[garden warbler]] in ''Sylvia''. In an additional change they moved the [[African hill babbler]] from ''Horizorhinus'' and [[Dohrn's warbler]] from ''Pseudoalcippe'' into ''Sylvia''.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson  | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 2: Passerines | edition=4th | place=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=509 }}</ref> The split was at first not made by the [[British Ornithologists' Union]] on the grounds that "a split into two genera would unnecessarily destabilize nomenclature and results in only a minor increase in phylogenetic information content",<ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Sangster | first1=G. | display-authors=etal | author1-link=George Sangster | year=2016 | title=Taxonomic recommendations for Western Palearctic birds: 11th report | journal=Ibis | volume=158 | issue=1 | pages=206–212 | doi=10.1111/ibi.12322 | doi-access=}}</ref> but then later accepted in 2021.<ref name="BOURC2021">{{cite journal | title=British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC): 52nd Report (January 2021) | journal=Ibis | volume=163 | issue=1 | date=2021 | issn=0019-1019 | doi=10.1111/ibi.12900 | doi-access=free | pages=305–308 }}</ref>

===Extant species===
The genus as currently circumscribed includes the following species:<ref name=IOC10.1>{{BioRef|IOC |family=Sylviidae|version=Version 10.1|access-date=1 July 2020}}</ref>
* [[Eurasian blackcap]] ''Sylvia atricapilla''
* [[Garden warbler]] ''Sylvia borin''
* [[Dohrn's warbler]] ''Sylvia dohrni''
* [[Abyssinian catbird]] ''Sylvia galinieri''
* [[Bush blackcap]] ''Sylvia nigricapillus''
* [[African hill babbler]] ''Sylvia abyssinica''
* [[Rwenzori hill babbler]] ''Sylvia atriceps''