Hemicircus

Hemicircus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. Members of the genus are found in India and Southeast Asia.

Hemicircus
Heart-spotted woodpecker (Hemicircus canente)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Hemicirini
Genus:	Hemicircus Swainson, 1837
Type species
Picus concretus[1] Temminck, 1821
Species
see text
Synonyms
Hemicercus

These are small woodpeckers with short tails. The plumage is mainly black and white.^[2]

The genus was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson with the grey-and-buff woodpecker (Hemicircus concretus) as the type species.^[3][4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek 'hēmi meaning "half" or "small" and kerkos meaning "tail".^[5]

Species

The genus contains two species:^[6]

Genus Hemicircus – Swainson, 1837 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Grey-and-buff woodpecker	Hemicircus sordidus (Temminck, 1821) Two subspecies H. c. sordidus (Eyton, 1845) H. c. concretus (Temminck, 1821)	Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Java	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Heart-spotted woodpecker	Hemicircus canente (Lesson, 1832)	Western Ghats and the forests of central India	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC