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

Taxonomy

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

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 




References

  1. ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Quadro dei volucri zigodattili ossia passeri a piedi scansori". In de Luca, Serafino; Müller, D. (eds.). L'Ateneo Italiano; raccolta di documenti e memorie relative al progresso delle scienze fisiche (in Italian). Vol. 2. Parigi [Paris]: Victor Masson. pp. 116–129 [124].
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 94.
  5. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 224.
  6. ^ 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005. PMID 28890006.
  7. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 May 2020.