Dinopium is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are found in South and Southeast Asia.
Flamebacks | |
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Common flameback (Dinopium javanense) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Picini |
Genus: | Dinopium Rafinesque, 1814 |
Type species | |
Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus[1] Rafinesque, 1814
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Species | |
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The genus was introduced by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1814 to accommodate the common flameback (Dinopium javanense).[2][3] The name combines the Classical Greek deinos meaning "mighty" or "huge" and ōps/ōpos meaning "appearance".[4]
A large phylogenetic study of the woodpecker family Picidae published in 2017 found that the genus was paraphyletic. The olive-backed woodpecker (Dinopium rafflesii) is more closely related to the pale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) than it is to other members of the genus Dinopium.[5]
As presently constituted, the genus contains the following 5 species:[6]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Dinopium shorii | Himalayan flameback | Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal | |
Dinopium javanense | Common flameback | Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam | |
Dinopium everetti | Spot-throated flameback | island of Palawan in the Philippines. | |
Dinopium benghalense | Black-rumped flameback | Pakistan, India south of the Himalayas and east till the western Assam valley and Meghalaya, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | |
Dinopium psarodes | Red-backed flameback | Sri Lanka |