See text Cyanoderma is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae.

Many of these species were formerly placed in the genus Stachyris A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus Stachyris was paraphyletic.

In the subsequent reorganization to create monophyletic genera, the genus Cyanoderma was resurrected to accommodate a group of species formerly assigned to Stachyris.

[1][2] The genus Cyanoderma had been introduced in 1874 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori with chestnut-winged babbler as the type species.

[5] The genus contains the following species:[2] Deignan's babbler Cyanoderma rodolphei collected in 1939 at Doi Chiang Dao in Thailand is considered synonymous with the rufous-fronted babbler.