About Heterophasia picaoides (Hodgson, 1839)
The long-tailed sibia, with the scientific name Heterophasia picaoides, is a species in the family Leiothrichidae native to Southeast Asia. This species was originally classified within the broad family Timaliidae. When Timaliidae is split into smaller families, the long-tailed sibia is placed with laughingthrushes in Leiothrichidae. Some taxonomic treatments consider Heterophasia to be a monotypic genus containing only this species, and move all other former Heterophasia species into the genus Malacias. The long-tailed sibia ranges across an area extending from the Himalayas through Southeast Asia to Sumatra. It inhabits a variety of forested and edge environments, including evergreen forest, oak and pine forests, secondary growth, scrubland containing large trees, and forest edge habitats.
