Curruca is a genus of Sylviid warblers, best represented in Europe, Africa, and Asia. All of these species were formerly placed in the genus Sylvia.
| Curruca | |
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| Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sylviidae |
| Genus: | Curruca Bechstein, 1802 |
| Type species | |
| Motacilla curruca Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Species | |
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Many, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parisoma Swainson 1832. | |
The genus Curruca was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802. The type species (bytautonomy) is the lesser whitethroat Curruca curruca.[2][3][4] The name Curruca is the Latin word for an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Roman poet Juvenal.[5] The genus was split from Sylvia in the Howard and Moore Checklist in 2014 after a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[6] The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.[7]
The genus contains 25 species:[8]