Dyaphorophyia

Dyaphorophyia
Chestnut wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia castanea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Platysteiridae
Genus:	Dyaphorophyia Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Platysteira leucopygialis Fraser, 1843=Platysteira castaneaFraser, 1843

Dyaphorophyia is a genus of birds in the wattle-eye family Platysteiridae. These insect-eating birds are found in tropical Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus Dyaphorophyia was introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. ^{[1] [2]} He did not specify a type species but in 1855 George Gray designated the type as Platysteira leucopygialis Fraser. This is a junior synonym of Platysteira castanea Fraser, the chestnut wattle-eye. ^{[3] [4]} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek διαφορος/diaphoros meaning "different" with φυω/phuō meaning "to produce". ^[5]

The genus contains three species: ^[6]

• Chestnut wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia castanea – Benin and southwestern Nigeria eastward to southeastern Sudan, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, and southward to northwestern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Zambia
• West African wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia hormophora – Sierra Leone to Togo
• White-spotted wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia tonsa – forest of southern Ivory Coast to Nigeria, Gabon, and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo

References

1. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 38: 1–11, 53–67, 258–266, 378–389, 533–541, 650–665 [653, note].
2. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 386.
3. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 52.
4. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 209. ISBN   978-0-9568611-2-2.
5. Jobling, James A. "Dyaphorophyia". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
6. AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi: 10.2173/avilist.v2025 . Retrieved 16 November 2025.