See text Anthochaera is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family.

A molecular phylogenetic study has shown that the regent honeyeater also belongs in this genus.

[2] These are bare fleshy appendages, usually wrinkled and often brightly coloured, hanging from the cheeks, neck or throat, and presumably serving for display.

The genus Anthochaera was introduced in 1827 by the naturalists Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield.

[4] The type species was designated as the little wattlebird by the German ornithologist Hans Friedrich Gadow in 1884.