Trochalopteron

 ( Bird Genera ) 

Trochalopteron is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.

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Taxonomy The genus Trochalopteron was introduced in 1843 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth. The name combines the Ancient Greek trokhalos meaning "round" or "bowed" with pteron meaning "wing".

James A. Jobling (2025). 9781408125014, Christopher Helm. ISBN 9781408125014

The type species was designated in 1930 by E. C. Stuart Baker as the scaly laughingthrush.

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Species The genus contains the following 19 species:

Patkai range, India

Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam.

Turkestan Range to the Safed Koh and east through the Himalayas towards Sikkim.

Patkai range, India

Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan, Myanmar and Laos

Bhutan, India, Nepal and Tibet.

eastern Nepal eastwards to Arunachal Pradesh in India and further to Myanmar, along with Bhutan and southeastern Tibet.

central China and far northeastern India.

southwestern China and northeastern India

Taiwan.

Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal.

Vietnam.

China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

China (Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces) and north-west Vietnam.

Bhutan and some adjoining areas in India.

Northeast India and adjacent southwest China and Myanmar.

southern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

Vietnam.

southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia.

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Former species Two species that were formerly included in this genus have been moved to Montecincla based on phylogenetic studies that showed them to be more distantly related to the Trochalopteron clade than to a clade formed by species in the genera Leiothrix, Actinodura, Minla, Crocias and Heterophasia.

• Black-chinned laughingthrush, Montecincla cachinnans (with jerdoni separated as a full species)
• Kerala laughingthrush, Montecincla fairbanki

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