Anaplectes

Anaplectes
Male red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Ploceidae
Genus:	Anaplectes Reichenbach, 1863
Type species
Ploceus melanotis [1] = Ploceus leuconotus Lafresnaye, 1840

Anaplectes is a genus of African birds in the weaver family Ploceidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Anaplectes was introduced in 1863 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. ^[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Richard Bowdler Sharpe as Ploceus leuconotus Müller, JW 1851, now a subspecies of the red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps). ^{[3] [4]}

The genus contains the following two species: ^[5]

• Red-headed weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
• Red weaver Anaplectes jubaensis

References

1. "Ploceidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1863). Die Singvögel als Fortsetzung de vollständigsten Naturgeschichte und zugleich als Central-Atlas für zoologische Gärten und für Thierfreunde. Ein durch zahlreiche illuminirte Abbildungen illustrirtes Handbuch zur richtigten Bestimmung und Pflege der Thiere aller Classen (in German). Vol. 4. Dresden and Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. 86.
3. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1890). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Sturnformes. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 13. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 411.
4. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 57.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 February 2023.