The solitaires are medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the genera Myadestes, Cichlopsis and Entomodestes of the thrush family Turdidae.

Although all three genera of solitaires are morphologically similar, genetic studies have indicated that they are not particularly closely related.

The genus Myadestes is in the basal clade of the family Turdidae, along with the genera Sialia (the bluebirds) and Neocossyphus (African ant-thrushes).

[1] Thrushes in three genera are called "solitaires":