• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Corvides: Corvoidea
• Distribution: Africa and Madagascar, Eurasia, Philippines and Wallacea, Australia and New Guinea
• Number of extant genera: 1
• Number of extant species: 28

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Dicruridae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6 illustrates the intrinsic phylogenetic relationships. (link) 

Bibliography [annotated]

Fuchs J, Cruaud C, Couloux A, and Pasquet E (2007), Complex bio-geographic history of the cuckoo-shrikes and allies (Passeriformes: Campephagidae) revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 44, 138-159. (abstract) [note: provided a timetree including two Dicrurus species, D. bracteatus and D. paradiseus]

Jønsson KA, Fabre PH, Kennedy JD, Holt BG, Borregaard MK, Rahbek C, and Fjeldså J (2016), A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Aves: Corvides), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 94, 87-94. (suppl. mat.) (abstract) (authors`pdf) [note: provided a hidden species-level timetree of 19 Dicrurus species; missed exactly the same 9 species as McCullough et al. (2022)]

McCullough JM, Oliveros CH, Benz BW, Zenil-Ferguson R, Cracraft J, Moyle RG, and Andersen MJ (2022), Wallacean and Melanesian islands promote higher rates of diversification within the global passerine radiation Corvides, Syst. Biol. 71, 1423-39, [and suppl. figure S6]. (free pdf) [note: provided a timetree of 19 Dicrurus species; didn't study: andamanensis, densus, lophorinus, menagei, montanus, palawanensis, sharpei, striatus, and sumatranus]

Pasquet E, Pons JM, Fuchs J, Cruaud C, and Bretagnolle V (2007), Evolutionary history and biogeography of the drongos (Dicruridae), a tropical Old World clade of corvoid passerines, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45, 158-167. (abstract) [note: provided a species-level timetree of 18 Dicrurus species; missed the same species as Jønsson et al (2016) and McCullough et al. (2022) plus caerulescens; found D. paradiseus to be paraphyletic with respect to D. annectans]