À la suite de la publication de diverses études phylogéniques sur les passereaux corvoïdes d'Océanie, notamment Norman et al. (2009), Jønsson et al. (2010), Jønsson et al. (2011), et al. (2014), Schodde & Christidis (2014), qui montrent que les Artamidae et les Cracticidae appartiennent à un même clademonophylétique, le Congrès ornithologique international fusionne l'ancienne famille des Cracticidae dans la famille des Artamidae à partir de la version 4.3 (2014) de sa classification. Les Cracticidae y forment dorénavant la sous-famille des Cracticinae.
Kearns A. (2011), «Systematics, phylogeography and evolutionary history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds (Artamidae: Cracticus)», thèse de doctorat, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland.
Kearns A.M., L. Joseph, L.G. Cook (2013), «A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies», Molec. Phy. Evol., vol.66, p.941-952.
Norman, J.A., P.G.P. Ericson, K.A. Jønsson, J. Fjeldså & L. Christidis (2009), «A multi-gene phylogeny reveals novel relationships for aberrant genera of Australo-Papuan core Corvoidea and polyphyly of the Pachycephalidae and Psophodidae (Aves: Passeriformes)», Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol.52, p.488-497.
Jønsson K.A., F. Pierre-Herni, R.E. Ricklefs & J. Fjeldså (2011), «Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago», Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.108, p.2328-2333.
Schodde R. & L. Christidis (2014), «Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal», Zootaxa, vol.3786, no5, p.501-522.
Aggerbeck M., J. Fjeldså, L. Christidis, P.H. Fabre & K.A. Jønsson (2014), «Resolving deep lineage divergences in core corvoid passerine birds supports a proto-Papuan island origin», Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol.70, p.272-285.