Neophemini, Smith & Thom & Joseph, 2024

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo, 2024, Revised Evolutionary And Taxonomic Synthesis For Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) Guided By Phylogenomic Analysis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (468), pp. 1-87 : 58

Neophemini Schodde, Mason, Smith, Thom,

and Joseph, 2024, new tribe

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DIAGNOSIS: Small, usually plain-plumaged parrots without transverse barring or black chevroning, e.g., dorsal feathers in Pezoporus are transversely barred black and yellow in their centers but broadly fringed with green, whereas in Neophema and Neopsephotus the dorsal feathers are plain green or dusky brown, respectively; unmarked outer rectrices with extensive yellow (or white) tips and dark bases; remiges with white to yellowish white bar on inner vanes evanescent, earliest in adult males, hardly extending on to outer vanes and usually obscure on upper surface of wing; pale “submissive” spot present in nape down; underwing coverts rich dark blue, often brighter on bend of wing; hypotarsal flexor tendon arrangement approaching ancestral condition: deep flexor tendons enclosed in separate bony canals, superficial tendon musculus flexor perforatus digiti II enclosed in a separate canal, and remaining superficial tendons external and separated in two separated shallow grooves on plantar wall; usually colonial, in small groups; foraging on ground and low shrubs and nesting in tree hollows (scrapes under rocks in Neophema petrophila ); nestling begging call a husky quavering note that increases in time-frequency with age developing into bursts of brief whistles. In accordance with Article 13.1.2, we note that gross phenotypic differences have been well-illustrated and described on many occasions in the literature and we cite as examples reference works on the world’s parrots (e.g., Forshaw and Knight, 2010; Juniper and Parr, 1998). This tribe comprises the genera Neophema and Neopsephotus . TYPE GENUS: Neophema Salvadori, 1891 , Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum 20: 539, 569, by original designation. Type species: Psittacus pulchellus Shaw, 1792 = Nephema (Neophema) pulchella (Shaw, 1792) . TAXONOMIC POSITION OF THE TRIBE: Subfamily Platycercinae in the Family Psittaculidae . COMPONENT GENERA: Neopsephotus and Neophema .

Neopsephotus Mathews, 1912 . Novitates

Zoologicae 18: 279 – type species:

Euphema bourkii Gould, 1841 =

Neopsephotus bourkii (Gould, 1841) ,

by monotypy.

Neophema Salvadori, 1891 . Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum 20:

539, 569 – type species: Psittacus pulchellus Shaw, 1792 = Neophema (Neophema) pulchella (Shaw, 1792) , by original designation.

subgenus Neophema subgenus Neonanodes Mathews, 1912 .

Novitates Zoologicae 18: 279 – type species: Psittacus chrysogaster Latham ,

1790 = Neophema (Neonanodes)

chrysogaster (Latham, 1790) , by monotypy. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Australia and some of its offshore islands including Tasmania.