Dendroplex

Dendroplex is a genus of birds in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae. It was long merged into Xiphorhynchus, but its distinctness has now been established.^[1]

Dendroplex
Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Subfamily:	Dendrocolaptinae
Genus:	Dendroplex Swainson, 1827
Type species
Oriolus picus Gmelin, JF, 1788
Species
Dendroplex kienerii Dendroplex picus

Taxonomy

The genus Dendroplex was introduced in 1827 by the English naturalist William Swainson.^[2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek dendron meaning "tree" with plēssō meaning "to strike".^[3] Swainson did not specify a type species but this was fixed in 2007 as the straight-billed woodcreeper which had first been described in 1788 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin with the binomial name Oriolus picus.^[4][5]

The genus contains two species:^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Dendroplex picus	Straight-billed woodcreeper	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
	Dendroplex kienerii	Zimmer's woodcreeper	Amazon river and tributaries