Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)

Island Verditer-flycatcher (Eumyias panayensis) - HBW 11, p. 148

French: Gobemouche des îles German: Azurschnäpper Spanish: Papamoscas Isleño
Other common names: Island Flycatcher, Mountain Verditer-flycatcher, Philippine Verditer Flycatcher; Panay Flycatcher (panayensis)

Taxonomy: Eumyias panayensis Sharpe, 1877, Panay, Philippines.
Forms a superspecies with E. sordidus and E. thalassinus. Population on Sula Is provisionally included within race septentrionalis, but appears to represent an as yet undescribed race. Seven subspecies currently recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

nigrimentalis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1894) - Luzon and Mindoro, in N Philippines.
panayensis Sharpe, 1877 - Panay and Negros, in WC Philippines.
nigriloris (E. J. O. Hartert, 1904) - mountains of Mindanao (S Philippines).

See all 7 subspecies

nigrimentalis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1894) - Luzon and Mindoro, in N Philippines.
panayensis Sharpe, 1877 - Panay and Negros, in WC Philippines.
nigriloris (E. J. O. Hartert, 1904) - mountains of Mindanao (S Philippines).
septentrionalis (Büttikofer, 1893) - N & C Sulawesi and Sula Is (Taliabu).
meridionalis (Büttikofer, 1893) - S Sulawesi.
obiensis (E. J. O. Hartert, 1912) - Obi, in Moluccas.
harterti (van Oort, 1911) - Seram, in S Moluccas.