| Kidepo lark | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Corypha |
| Species: | C. kidepoensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Corypha kidepoensis (Macdonald, 1940) | |
The Kidepo lark (Corypha kidepoensis) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in South Sudan and Uganda. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the red-winged lark.
The Kidepo lark was formally described in 1940 by the Scottish-Australian ornithologist James Macdonald based on a specimen that he had collected in southern South Sudan at Ero on the boundary of Didinga Hills with the plain of the Kidepo River. He considered it as a subspecies of the red-winged lark and coined the trinomial name Mirafra hypermetra kidepoensis. [1] [2] The Kidepo lark is now treated as a separate species and placed in the genus Corypha based on the results of molecular phylogenetic studies by a team of ornithologists led by Per Alström that were published in 2023 and 2024. [3] [4] [5]
Two subspecies are recognised: [5]
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