see text Melaenornis is a genus of small passerine birds in the large family Muscicapidae commonly known as the Old World flycatchers.

The genus Melaenornis was introduced in 1840 by the English zoologist George Gray.

It was a replacement name for Melasoma that had been introduced in 1837 by William Swainson with the northern black flycatcher as the type species.

The results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 led to a reorganization of the Old World flycatchers family in which the four species in Bradornis and the single species in Sigelus were merged into Melaenornis.

Based on a phylogenetic study published in 2023, they were moved to the resurrected genus Agricola.