Dendrocopos

Dendrocopos is a widespread genus of woodpeckers from Asia and Europe and Northern Africa. The species range from the Philippines to the British Isles.

Dendrocopos
White-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Melanerpini
Genus: Dendrocopos
Koch, 1816
Species

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Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch in 1816.[1] The name Dendrocopus combines the Greek words dendron meaning "tree" and kopos meaning "striking".[2] The type species was designated as the great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) by the Scottish ornithologist Edward Hargitt in 1890 in his catalogue of woodpeckers in the collection of the British Museum.[3][4]

The genus Dendrocopos at one time contained around 25 species. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the pied woodpeckers published in 2015 found that Dendrocopos was polyphyletic. In the rearranged genera the number of species in Dendrocopos was reduced to 12 as listed below.[5][6]

Species
ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Dendrocopos hyperythrusRufous-bellied woodpeckerIndian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, North Korea, South Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam
Dendrocopos maceiFulvous-breasted woodpeckerBangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar
Dendrocopos analisFreckle-breasted woodpeckerIndonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Dendrocopos atratusStripe-breasted woodpeckerIndia to Vietnam and the province of Yunnan in southwestern China
Dendrocopos darjellensisDarjeeling woodpeckerBhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Tibet
Dendrocopos himalayensisHimalayan woodpeckerAfghanistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan.
Dendrocopos assimilisSind woodpeckerIndia, Iran, and Pakistan
Dendrocopos syriacusSyrian woodpeckersoutheastern Europe east to Iran
Dendrocopos leucopterusWhite-winged woodpeckerAfghanistan, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Dendrocopos majorGreat spotted woodpeckerBritish Isles to Japan, and in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia
Dendrocopos noguchiiOkinawa woodpeckerOkinawa in Japan
Dendrocopos leucotosWhite-backed woodpeckerEastern Europe across the Palearctic to Japan

References
  1. Koch, C.L. (1816). System der baierischen Zoologie (in German). Volume 1. Nürnberg: Stein. pp. xxvii, 72.
  2. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 180.
  4. Hargitt, E. (1890). Volume 18: Catalogue of the Picariae in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 201.
  5. Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.M. (2015). "A new classification of the pied woodpeckers assemblage (Dendropicini, Picidae) based on a comprehensive multi-locus phylogeny". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 88: 28–37. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.016. PMID 25818851.
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

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