Scepomycter is a genus of threatened

Threatened species

Threatened species are any speciesg animals, plants, fungi, etc.) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future.The World Conservation Union is the foremost authority on threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories,...

 bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

s in the Cisticolidae

Cisticolidae

The Cisticolidae family of small passerine birds is a group of about 110 warblers found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They are often included within the Old World warbler family Sylviidae....

 family. The two species are endemic to highland forests in the Eastern Arc Mountains

Eastern Arc Mountains

The Eastern Arc Mountains are a chain of mountains found in Kenya and Tanzania. It comprises:* Taita Hills* North and South Pare* East and West Usambara* North and South Nguru* Ukaguru* Uluguru Mountains* Rubeho* Udzungwa Mountains* Mahenge Escarpment...

 of Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

. They are small, mainly grey birds with a reddish-orange head.

Taxonomy

The Rubeho Warbler is a cryptic species

Cryptic species complex

In biology, a cryptic species complex is a group of species which satisfy the biological definition of species—that is, they are reproductively isolated from each other—but whose morphology is very similar ....

 only described as separate from the Mrs Moreau's Warbler in 2009. The Mrs Moreau's Warbler (and by association, the Rubeho Warbler) have often been included in the genus Bathmocercus

Bathmocercus

Bathmocercus is a genus of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It contains the following species:* Black-capped Rufous Warbler * Black-faced Rufous Warbler...

instead.

• Mrs Moreau's Warbler
  Mrs Moreau's Warbler
  Winifred's Warbler , also known as Mrs Moreau's Warbler, is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. The genus Scepomycter has traditionally been considered monotypic, but in 2009 a closely related new species was described, the Rubeho Warbler. Alternatively, the Winifred’s Warbler is...
  
   or Winifred's Warbler (Scepomycter winifredae).
• Rubeho Warbler
  Rubeho Warbler
  The Rubeho Warbler is a threatened species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in highland forests in the Rubeho–Ukaguru Mountains in Tanzania. This cryptic species was only described in 2009; it having traditionally been included in the closely related Mrs Moreau's...
  
  (Scepomycter rubehoensis).