Tychaedon

Tychaedon is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that are found in Sub-Saharan Africa. It contains species that were formerly placed in the genus Cercotrichas.

==Taxonomy== The species now placed in this genus were previously placed in the genus Cercotrichas. A molecular phylogenetic study of the family Muscicapidae published in 2023 found that Cercotrichas was paraphyletic. In the rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, some species were moved to the resurrected genus Tychaedon. This genus had been erected in 1917 by the American ornithologist Charles Wallace Richmond as a replacement name for Aedonopsis that had been introduced by Richard Bowdler Sharpe 1883. The type species is Cossypha signata Sundevall, 1850, the brown scrub robin. The genus name Tychaedon combines Ancient Greek τυχη/tukhē meaning "chance" or "luck" with αηδων/aēdōn, αηδονος/aēdonos meaning "nightingale" or "songstress".