Sittiparus
Sittiparus is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae. The species in the genus were formerly included in "Parus" but were moved to "Sittiparus" when "Parus" was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013. The genus "Sittiparus" had originally been erected by the Belgium politician and naturalist Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1884 with the varied tit as the type species. The genus contains the following species: The subspecies Daito varied tit, " S. v. orii", became extinct in the 1940s, the only tit to have done so. Sittiparus