See text Certhia is the genus of birds containing the typical treecreepers, which together with the African and Indian spotted creepers make up the family Certhiidae.

[1] The treecreepers are small woodland birds, very similar in appearance (so they can present serious identification problems where two species occur together).

[1][2] They build cup nests on loose twig platforms wedged behind patches of bark on tree trunks.

[1] The genus Certhia was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.

[3] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek κερθιος/kerthios, a small insectivorous bird that lived in trees mentioned by Aristotle, perhaps a treecreeper.