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| Bocage's weaver ( P. temporalis ) and Bertram's weaver ( P. bertrandi ) ♀ | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Ploceus Cuvier, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Loxia philippina [1] Linnaeus, 1766 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms [2] | |
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Ploceus is a genus of birds in the weaver family, Ploceidae. They are native to the Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms.
The genus Ploceus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. [3] The type species was subsequently designated as the baya weaver. [4] The genus name is from Ancient Greek πλοκευς plokeus meaning "weaver", and is derived from the Greek word πλεκω plekō "to entwine". [5]
Based on recent DNA-analysis, the genus Ploceus is almost certainly polyphyletic. If all species currently included in the genus would remain and the genus would be made monophyletic, it would have to encompass the entire subfamily Ploceinae. The Ploceinae can be divided into two groups. In the first group, the widowbirds and bishops (genus Euplectes ) are sister to a clade in which the genera Foudia and Quelea are closest relatives and which further includes the Asiatic species of Ploceus, i.e. P. manyar, P. philippinus, P. benghalensis, P. megarhynchus, (and P. hypoxanthus, although untested). Since Georges Cuvier picked P. philippinus as the type species, these five species would logically remain assigned to the genus Ploceus.
Basic to the second group is a clade consisting of both species so far included in Ploceus that live on Madagascar, P. nelicourvi and P. sakalava, and these are morphologically very distinct from the remaining species. These two species could in future be assigned to the genus Nelicurvius that was erected by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850, but which was merged with Ploceus later on. This second group further contains the genera Malimbus and Anaplectes , and all remaining Ploceus species. As Malimbus is the earlier name, erected by Vieillot et al. in 1805, the remaining species of Ploceus, as well as Anaplectes rubiceps, could in future be assigned to Malimbus. [6] These changes are largely corroborated by morphological revisions. [7] [8] Provided that the other genera that have not been proposed to be merged into an extended "Malimbus" are monophyletic, the following (incomplete) tree expresses current insights.
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The genus contains 67 species. [9]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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 | Baglafecht weaver | Ploceus baglafecht | highlands of equatorial Africa |
 | Bannerman's weaver | Ploceus bannermani | Western High Plateau |
 | Bates's weaver | Ploceus batesi | Cameroon. |
| Black-chinned weaver | Ploceus nigrimentus | Bailundu Highlands of western Angola, on the Batéké Plateau in Republic of the Congo, and in eastern Gabon. | |
 | Bertram's weaver | Ploceus bertrandi | Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. |
 | Slender-billed weaver | Ploceus pelzelni | equatorial Africa |
| Loango weaver | Ploceus subpersonatus | maritime Central Africa | |
 | Little weaver | Ploceus luteolus | western Sudan (region) and East Africa |
 | Spectacled weaver | Ploceus ocularis | Sub-Saharan Africa (except west, south, Horn of Africa and Madagascar) |
 | Black-necked weaver | Ploceus nigricollis | equatorial Africa |
 | Olive-naped weaver | Ploceus brachypterus | West Africa |
 | Strange weaver | Ploceus alienus | Albertine Rift montane forests. |
 | Black-billed weaver | Ploceus melanogaster | central Africa. |
 | Cape weaver | Ploceus capensis | southern Africa. |
 | Bocage's weaver | Ploceus temporalis | Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northwestern Zambia. |
 | Eastern golden weaver | Ploceus subaureus | highlands of eastern and south-eastern Africa. |
 | Holub's golden weaver | Ploceus xanthops | miombo and adjacent areas |
 | Orange weaver | Ploceus aurantius | African tropical rainforest. |
 | Heuglin's masked weaver | Ploceus heuglini | Senegal, Gambia and Mali to Ivory Coast and east to Uganda and western Kenya. |
 | Golden palm weaver | Ploceus bojeri | eastern Africa. |
 | Taveta weaver | Ploceus castaneiceps | African Savannah in Kenya and Tanzania. |
 | Príncipe weaver | Ploceus princeps | São Tomé and Príncipe |
 | Northern brown-throated weaver | Ploceus castanops | Uganda, Rwanda and adjacent northern Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Kenya and northwestern Tanzania. |
 | Southern brown-throated weaver | Ploceus xanthopterus | southern Africa. |
| Ruvu weaver | Ploceus holoxanthus | Tanzania | |
| Kilombero weaver | Ploceus burnieri | Tanzania | |
 | Rüppell's weaver | Ploceus galbula | eastern Africa and southwestern Arabian Peninsula |
 | Northern masked weaver | Ploceus taeniopterus | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan. |
 | Lesser masked weaver | Ploceus intermedius | eastern, south-eastern and southern Africa. |
 | Southern masked weaver | Ploceus velatus | southern Africa. |
 | Katanga masked weaver | Ploceus katangae | south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia. |
| Lufira masked weaver | Ploceus ruweti | Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
| Tanzanian masked weaver | Ploceus reichardi | south-western Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia. | |
 | Vitelline masked weaver | Ploceus vitellinus | western, central and eastern Africa. |
 | Speke's weaver | Ploceus spekei | northern and eastern Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and north-eastern Tanzania |
 | Fox's weaver | Ploceus spekeoides | Uganda. |
 | Village weaver | Ploceus cucullatus | Sub-Saharan Africa; introduced to Hispaniola, Dominica, Mauritius and Réunion. |
 | Giant weaver | Ploceus grandis | São Tomé Island. |
 | Chestnut-and-black weaver | Ploceus castaneofuscus | West Africa |
 | Vieillot's black weaver | Ploceus nigerrimus | Central Africa |
 | Weyns's weaver | Ploceus weynsi | eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Tanzania. |
 | Kilifi weaver | Ploceus golandi | Kenya. |
 | Juba weaver | Ploceus dichrocephalus | Horn of Africa. |
 | Black-headed weaver | Ploceus melanocephalus | West, Central, and East Africa |
 | Golden-backed weaver | Ploceus jacksoni | Burundi, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
| Cinnamon weaver | Ploceus badius | Sudan and South Sudan | |
 | Chestnut weaver | Ploceus rubiginosus | eastern and south-western Africa. |
| Golden-naped weaver | Ploceus aureonucha | northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
 | Yellow-mantled weaver | Ploceus tricolor | African tropical rainforest. |
 | Maxwell's black weaver | Ploceus albinucha | African tropical rainforest. |
 | Nelicourvi weaver | Ploceus nelicourvi | Madagascar |
 | Sakalava weaver | Ploceus sakalava | Madagascar. |
 | Asian golden weaver | Ploceus hypoxanthus | Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. |
 | Compact weaver | Ploceus superciliosus | sparsely distributed across African tropical rainforest and adjacent areas |
 | Black-breasted weaver | Ploceus benghalensis | South Asia |
 | Streaked weaver | Ploceus manyar | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam |
 | Baya weaver | Ploceus philippinus | Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. |
 | Finn's weaver | Ploceus megarhynchus | India and Nepal |
 | Dark-backed weaver | Ploceus bicolor | Sub-Saharan Africa (except west, south, Horn of Africa and Madagascar) |
 | Preuss's weaver | Ploceus preussi | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. |
| Yellow-capped weaver | Ploceus dorsomaculatus | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon. | |
 | Olive-headed weaver | Ploceus olivaceiceps | Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. |
| Usambara weaver | Ploceus nicolli | Tanzania. | |
 | Brown-capped weaver | Ploceus insignis | Western High Plateau, Albertine Rift montane forests, Imatong Mountains and Kenya |
 | Bar-winged weaver | Ploceus angolensis | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. |
 | São Tomé weaver | Ploceus sanctithomae | São Tomé and Príncipe. |
| Yellow-legged weaver | Ploceus flavipes | Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
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