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Piculus
Flickr - Rainbirder - Rufous-winged Woodpecker (Piculus simplex) male.jpg
Adult male rufous-winged woodpecker (Piculus simplex)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Picini
Genus: Piculus
Spix, 1824
Type species
Piculus macrocephalus [1]
von Spix, 1824
Species

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Piculus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Central and South America.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824. [2] The type species was subsequently designated as the golden-green woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser in 1923. [3] The generic name is a diminutive of the Latin word Picus meaning "woodpecker". [4]

The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are found in Eurasia and the Americas. The genus Piculus is a member of the tribe Picini and belongs to a clade that contains five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus , Dryocopus and Celeus . [5]

The genus contains seven species: [6]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Flickr - Rainbirder - Rufous-winged Woodpecker (Piculus simplex) male.jpg Piculus simplex Rufous-winged woodpecker Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Formerly considered to be a subspecies of the white-throated woodpecker.
Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker (Piculus callopterus) 2.jpg Piculus callopterus Stripe-cheeked woodpecker Panama. Formerly considered to be a subspecies of the white-throated woodpecker.
Piculus litae 104826755 (cropped).jpg Piculus litae Lita woodpecker western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador
Piculus leucolaemus - White-throated woodpecker (male).jpg Piculus leucolaemus White-throated woodpecker The Amazon Basin, Brazil, mainly in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
Yellow-throated woodpecker (Piculus flavigula).jpg Piculus flavigula Yellow-throated woodpecker Brazil and the entire Amazon Basin; also in the Guianas, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela
Golden-green Woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) (8079739212).jpg Piculus chrysochloros Golden-green woodpecker The Amazon Basin in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru and Suriname
Piculus aurulentus Yellow-browed Woodpecker.jpg Piculus aurulentus Yellow-browed woodpecker Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

Five other species, formerly placed here, are now in Colaptes .

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References

  1. "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. von Spix, Johann Baptist (1824). Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (in Latin). Vol. 1. Monachii [München]: Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. Index p. 3. The link is to a scan of the 2nd edition published in 1838–1839.
  3. Oberholser, Harry C. (1923). "Chloronerpes Swainson versus Piculus Spix". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 36: 201–202.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p.  306. 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, eds. (2019). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 August 2019.