Saxicola est un genre d'oiseaux de l'ordre des Passeriformes et de la famille des muscicapidés.
Ses espèces sont appelées tariers et parfois traquets.
Muscicapidae: Muscicapa vient du mot latin musca signifiant mouche, et capere signifiant rattraper, attraper, gober.
Saxicola mot latin: saxum: rocher + incola: habiter, demeurer.
1/ Common Stonechat (Sẻ bụi đầu đen, Saxicola torquatus), also African stonechat
This species is considered superspecies now:
African stonechat Saxicola torquatus in the strict sense
European stonechat Saxicola rubicola
Siberian stonechat Saxicola maurus
Madagascar stonechat Saxicola sibilla
Newly added to this superspecies:
Fuerteventura chat Saxicola dacotiae
Reunion stonechat Saxicola tectes
White-tailed stonechat Saxicola leucurus
2/ Pied Bushchat (Sẻ bụi đen, Saxicola caprata)
3/ Jerdon's Bushchat (Sẻ bụi lưng xanh, Saxicola jerdoni)
The Latin binomial commemorates the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger.
4/ Tarier gris
Grey Bush Chat
(Sẻ bụi xám, Saxicola ferreus)
5/ Siberian stonechat or Asian stonechat (Saxicola maurus)
Sẻ bụi đầu đen
6/ Amur stonechat, or Stejneger's stonechat
Saxicola stejnegeri
The Latin binomial commemorates the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger.