Blythipicus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Campephilini |
Genus: | Blythipicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
Type species | |
Picus rubiginosus [1] Swainson, 1837 | |
Species | |
2, see text |
Blythipicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Southeast Asia.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. [2] The name was chosen to honour the English zoologist Edward Blyth whose name is combined with the Latin picus meaning "woodpecker". [3] The type species was subsequently designated as the maroon woodpecker (Blythipicus rubiginosus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. [4] [5] The genus is in the tribe Campephilini, one of five tribes that make up the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus Blythipicus is sister to a clade containing the genera Reinwardtipicus and Chrysocolaptes . [6]
The genus contains two species: [7]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Blythipicus rubiginosus | Maroon woodpecker | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Myanmar, Singapore, and southern Thailand. | |
Blythipicus pyrrhotis | Bay woodpecker | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. | |
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