The white-winged black tit (Melaniparus leucomelas) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.

[2] The species was first described by Eduard Rüppell in 1840.

It is mainly black with a white wing patch, but differs from the more northern white-shouldered tit (Melaniparus guineensis) with which it sometimes considered conspecific in that it has a dark eye.

It is found in central Africa, from Angola in the west to Ethiopia in the east.

There are two races:[3] The white-winged black tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Melaniparus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade.