Meiglyptes

Meiglyptes
Buff-rumped woodpecker (Meiglyptes grammithorax)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Picini
Genus:	Meiglyptes Swainson, 1837
Type species
Picus poicilophus [1] Temminck, 1823
Species
see text

Meiglyptes is a genus of Southeast Asian birds in the woodpecker family Picidae.

The genus was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1837 with the white-rumped woodpecker (Meiglyptes tristis) as the type species. ^{[2] [3]} The name combines the Ancient Greek meiōn meaning "smaller" or "lesser" with gluptēs meaning "carver". ^[4] The genus belongs to the tribe Picini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus is sister to the rufous woodpecker in its own monotypic genus Micropternus . ^[5]

The genus contains 4 species. ^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Meiglyptes grammithorax	Buff-rumped woodpecker	southern Myanmar and Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo
	Meiglyptes tristis	Zebra woodpecker	Java
	Meiglyptes jugularis	Black-and-buff woodpecker	Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
	Meiglyptes tukki	Buff-necked woodpecker	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand

References

1. "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. Swainson, William (1837). On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. Vol. 2. London: John Taylor. p. 309.
3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 147.
4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.  246. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
5. Shakya, S.B.; Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.M.; Sheldon, F.H. (2017). "Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 116: 182–191. Bibcode:2017MolPE.116..182S. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005 . PMID   28890006.
6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 May 2020.