Pitohui is a genus of birds endemic to New Guinea.

The birds formerly lumped together as pitohuis were found by a 2008 study that examined their evolutionary history on the basis of the genetic sequences to have included birds that were quite unrelated to each other.

The genus Pitohui was introduced in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson.

[1] Lesson omitted to specify the type species but this was designated as the northern variable pitohui by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1877.

[2][3] The genus name is a Papuan word for the variable pitohui.