Anaplectes

Anaplectes is a genus of African birds in the weaver family Ploceidae.

Anaplectes
Male red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Ploceidae
Genus:	Anaplectes Reichenbach, 1863
Type species
Ploceus melanotis[1] = Ploceus leuconotus Lafresnaye, 1840

Taxonomy

The genus Anaplectes was introduced in 1863 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.^[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Richard Bowdler Sharpe as Ploceus leuconotus Müller, JW 1851, now a subspecies of the red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps).^[3][4]

The genus contains the following two species:^[5]

• Red-headed weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
• Red weaver Anaplectes jubaensis