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Blythipicus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Campephilini
Genus: Blythipicus
Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Picus rubiginosus[1]
Swainson, 1837
Species

2, see text

Blythipicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy

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The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.[2] The name was chosen to honour the English zoologist Edward Blyth whose name is combined with the Latin picus meaning "woodpecker".[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the maroon woodpecker (Blythipicus rubiginosus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.[4][5] The genus is in the tribe Campephilini, one of five tribes that make up the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus Blythipicus is sister to a clade containing the genera Reinwardtipicus and Chrysocolaptes.[6]

Species

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The genus contains two species:[7]

Genus Blythipicus Bonaparte, 1854 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Maroon woodpecker

Blythipicus rubiginosus
(Swainson, 1837)
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Myanmar, Singapore, and southern Thailand. Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 LC 


Bay woodpecker

Blythipicus pyrrhotis
(Hodgson, 1837)

Five subspecies
  • B. p. pyrrhotis
  • B. p. sinensis
  • B. p. annamensis
  • B. p. hainanus
  • B. p. cameroni
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
 LC 




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