Leuconotopicus | |
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White-headed woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Melanerpini |
Genus: |
Leuconotopicus Malherbe, 1845 |
Species | |
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Leuconotopicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae native to North and South America.
The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with Strickland's woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) as the type species. [1] The name Leuconotopicus combines the Ancient Greek leukos meaning "white", nōton meaning "back" and pikos meaning "woodpecker". [2] The genus is sister to the genus Veniliornis and is one of eight genera placed in the tribe Melanerpini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. [3] The species now placed in this genus were previously assigned to Picoides. [4] [5]
The genus contains the following six species: [5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Leuconotopicus borealis | Red-cockaded woodpecker | southeastern United States from Florida to Virginia, as far west as eastern Texas and Oklahoma; formerly Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee | |
Leuconotopicus fumigatus | Smoky-brown woodpecker | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela | |
Leuconotopicus arizonae | Arizona woodpecker | southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico | |
Leuconotopicus stricklandi | Strickland's woodpecker | Mexico | |
Leuconotopicus villosus | Hairy woodpecker | Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States; vagrant to Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, | |
Leuconotopicus albolarvatus | White-headed woodpecker | British Columbia through southern California |
Leuconotopicus | |
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White-headed woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Melanerpini |
Genus: |
Leuconotopicus Malherbe, 1845 |
Species | |
See text |
Leuconotopicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae native to North and South America.
The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with Strickland's woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) as the type species. [1] The name Leuconotopicus combines the Ancient Greek leukos meaning "white", nōton meaning "back" and pikos meaning "woodpecker". [2] The genus is sister to the genus Veniliornis and is one of eight genera placed in the tribe Melanerpini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. [3] The species now placed in this genus were previously assigned to Picoides. [4] [5]
The genus contains the following six species: [5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Leuconotopicus borealis | Red-cockaded woodpecker | southeastern United States from Florida to Virginia, as far west as eastern Texas and Oklahoma; formerly Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee | |
Leuconotopicus fumigatus | Smoky-brown woodpecker | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela | |
Leuconotopicus arizonae | Arizona woodpecker | southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico | |
Leuconotopicus stricklandi | Strickland's woodpecker | Mexico | |
Leuconotopicus villosus | Hairy woodpecker | Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States; vagrant to Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, | |
Leuconotopicus albolarvatus | White-headed woodpecker | British Columbia through southern California |