 The scientific results of his expedition were discussed in detail afterwards.The moorland chat was usually placed in the genus "Cercomela", but molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2010 and 2012 found that the species was not closely related to birds in "Cercomela" or to birds in the closely related genus "Oenanthe".The moorland chat was therefore assigned to its own monotypic genus "Pinarochroa" which had been introduced by the Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1872.