Dendrocopos

Dendrocopos; Temporal range: 2.588–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	White-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Melanerpini
Genus:	Dendrocopos; Koch, 1816
Type species
	Picus major; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	See text

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

Taxonomy

The genus Dendrocopos was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch.^[3] The name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with kopos meaning "striking".^[4] 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.^[5]^[6]

The genus 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.^[7]^[8]

Species

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Dendrocopos hyperythrus	Rufous-bellied woodpecker	Indian subcontinent and Southeast and East Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, North Korea, South Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam
Dendrocopos macei	Fulvous-breasted woodpecker	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar
Dendrocopos analis	Freckle-breasted woodpecker	Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
Dendrocopos atratus	Stripe-breasted woodpecker	India to Vietnam and the province of Yunnan in southwestern China
Dendrocopos darjellensis	Darjeeling woodpecker	Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Tibet
Dendrocopos himalayensis	Himalayan woodpecker	Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Pakistan
Dendrocopos assimilis	Sind woodpecker	India, Iran, and Pakistan
Dendrocopos syriacus	Syrian woodpecker	southeastern Europe east to Iran
Dendrocopos leucopterus	White-winged woodpecker	Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Dendrocopos major	Great spotted woodpecker	British Isles to Japan, and in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia
Dendrocopos noguchii	Okinawa woodpecker	Okinawa in Japan
Dendrocopos leucotos	White-backed woodpecker	Eastern Europe across the Palearctic to Japan

References

^ "Dendrocopos Koch 1816". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
^ Koch, C.L. (1816). System der baierischen Zoologie (in German). Vol. 1. Nürnberg: Stein. pp. xxvii, 72.
^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 180.
^ Hargitt, E. (1890). Volume 18: Catalogue of the Picariae in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 18. London: British Museum. p. 201.
^ 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. Bibcode:2015MolPE..88...28F. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.016. PMID 25818851.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

Taxonomy

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