''Machlolophus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of birds in the tit family. The species were formerly placed with many others in the genus ''

Parus ''Parus'' is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family. It was formerly a large genus containing most of the 50 odd species in the family Paridae. The genus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed mo ...

'' but were moved to ''Machlolophus'' based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 that showed that the members formed a distinct clade. The name ''Machlolophus'' was introduced by the German ornithologist

Jean Cabanis Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. Cabanis was born in Berlin to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1 ...

in 1850. The word is derived from the classical Greek ''makhlos'' meaning luxuriant and ''lophos'' meaning crest. The following species, all from Asia, have been placed in the genus:

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