Alisterus, Mathews, 1911

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo, 2024, Revised Evolutionary And Taxonomic Synthesis For Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) Guided By Phylogenomic Analysis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (468), pp. 1-87 : 49

Alisterus

The king parrots ( Alisterus ) comprise three species that are largely red ventrally and green dorsally and that have long, broad tails. A streak of a lighter green in the upper wing coverts in two species is strongly UV-fluorescent ( Nemesio, 2001). They occur in Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea. Relationships among the species were consistent and highly supported across previous topologies ( Provost et al., 2018) and the one presented here. At approximately 3.2 Mya (1.8–4.2) A. scapularis ( Australia) diverged from the ancestor of A. amboinensis ( Moluccas, western New Guinea) and A. chloropterus (remainder of New Guinea), which in turn diversified at 1.8 Mya (1.1–2.5; fig. 10).