| Bombycilloidea | |
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| Phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Parvorder: | Muscicapida |
| Superfamily: | Bombycilloidea Alström et al., 2014[1] |
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Bombycilloidea is a superfamily of passerine birds that contains ten living species. They are found in North, Central America, most of the Palearctic, the Arabian Peninsula, the islands of Hispaniola and Sulawesi, and formerly the Hawaiian Islands.[2][3]
- ^ Alström, P.; Hooper, D.M.; Liu, Y.; Olsson, U.; Mohan, D.; Gelang, M.; Le Manh, H.; Zhao, J.; Lei, F.; Price, T.D. (2014). "Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds". Biology Letters. 10 (3): 20131067. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.1067. PMC 3982435. PMID 24598108.
- ^ Oliveros, C.H.; et al. (2019). "Earth history and the passerine superradiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. 116 (16): 7916–7925. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813206116. PMC 6475423. PMID 30936315.
- ^ "TiF Checklist: REGULOIDEA and BOMBYCILLOIDEA". jboyd.net. Retrieved 2021-04-19.