Blythipicus

Blythipicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Southeast Asia.

Blythipicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Campephilini
Genus:	Blythipicus Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Picus rubiginosus[1] Swainson, 1837
Species
2, see text

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.^[2] The name was chosen to honour the English zoologist Edward Blyth whose name is combined with the Latin picus meaning "woodpecker".^[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the maroon woodpecker (Blythipicus rubiginosus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.^[4][5] The genus is in the tribe Campephilini, one of five tribes that make up the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus Blythipicus is sister to a clade containing the genera Reinwardtipicus and Chrysocolaptes.^[6]

Species

The genus contains two species:^[7]

Genus Blythipicus – Bonaparte, 1854 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Maroon woodpecker	Blythipicus rubiginosus (Swainson, 1837)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Myanmar, Singapore, and southern Thailand.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Bay woodpecker	Blythipicus pyrrhotis (Hodgson, 1837) Five subspecies B. p. pyrrhotis B. p. sinensis B. p. annamensis B. p. hainanus B. p. cameroni	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC