• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Corvides: Malaconotoidea
• Distribution: South and Southeast Asia, Wallacea, Australia, New Guinea
• Number of extant genera: 6
• Number of extant species: 24

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Artamidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The phylogenetic arrangement is based on McCullough et al. (2022), and matches that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6. (link) Note, however, that species boundaries in both Peltops and Cracticus may have to be redefined (Kearns et al., 2013). 

References [annotated]

Cake M, Black A, and Joseph L (2018), The generic taxonomy of the Australian Magpie and Australo-Papuan butcherbirds is not at all black-and-white, Bull. Brit. Ornithol. Club 138, 346-359. (free pdf) [note: recommended to place Cracticus, Melloria, and Gymnorhina, respectively, in separate genera to represent their evolutionary diversity]

Fuchs J, Irestedt M, Fjeldså J, Couloux A, Pasquet E, and Bowie RCK (2012), Molecular phylogeny of African bush-shrikes and allies: tracing the biogeographic history of an explosive radiation of corvoid birds, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 64,93-105. (abstract) [note: included four artamid genera, Artamus, Cracticus, Gymnorhina, and Strepera]

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. (incl. supplementary material) (abstract) [note: treated many artamid species, but hidden in the supplementary material]

Kearns AM, Joseph L, and Cook LG (2013), A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 66, 941-952. (abstract) [note: treated all species of Cracticinae and Peltopsinae and found species in Peltops and Cracticus, respectively, to be non-monophyletic]

Kearns AM, Joseph L, Toon A, and Cook LG (2014), Australia's arid-adapted butcherbirds experienced range expansions during Pleistocene glacial maxima, Nature Comm. 5, e:3994. (free pdf) [focal taxon: Cracticus, subgenus Bulestes, comprising C. argenteus, C. mentalis, and C. torquatus]

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: included all artamid species except Artamus fuscus, A. mentalis, A. monarchus, and A. insignis]

Oliveros CH, Field DJ, Ksepka DT, Barker KF, Aleixo A, Andersen MJ, Alström P, Benz BW, Braun EL, Braun MJ, Bravo GA, Brumfield RT, Chesser RT, Claramunt S, Cracraft J, Cuervo AM, Derryberry EP, Glenn TC, Harvey MG, Hosner PA, Joseph L, Kimball RT, Mack AL, Miskelly CM, Peterson AT, Robbins MB, Sheldon FH, Silveira LF, Smith BT, White ND, Moyle RG, and Faircloth BC (2019), Earth history and the passerine superradiation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 7915-25. (pdf) [note: considered four artamid species, i.e. Artamus cinereus, Melloria quoyi, Peltops blainvillii, and Strepera graculina]

Schodde R, and Christidis L (2014), Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal, Zootaxa 3786, 501-522. (free pdf) [note: proposed subfamily name Peltopsinae for Peltops]