Emarginata is a genus of birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that occur in southern Africa.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that Cercomela was polyphyletic and that the type species Cercomela melanura (the blackstart) lay in a clade containing members of Oenanthe.

[2] A more comprehensive study published in 2012 confirmed the earlier results.

[4] Three species were placed in the resurrected genus Emarginata that had been introduced by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1896.

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