Hesperoburhinus

Hesperoburhinus is a genus of birds in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae. The genus is distributed in Middle and South America. It contains two species, the double-striped thick-knee and the Peruvian thick-knee.^[1]

Hesperoburhinus
Double-striped thick-knee (H. bistriatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Burhinidae
Genus:	Hesperoburhinus Černý, van Els, Natale & Gregory, 2023
Type species
Charadrius bistriatus Wagler, 1829

Taxonomy and phylogeny

The genus Hesperoburhinus was introduced in 2023 by American ornithologists David Černý, Rossy Natale, American and Dutch ornithologist Paul van Els, and British ornithologist Steven Martin Stewart Gregory to accommodate the double-striped thick-knee and the Peruvian thick-knee. The name is from Ancient Greek hésperos (ἑσπερος, means "western"), and the pre-existing name Burhinus, because it is the only genus of the stone-curlew family Burhinidae which is distributed in the western hemisphere.^[2]

Species

The genus contains two species:^[1]

Genus Hesperoburhinus – Černý, van Els, Natale & Gregory, 2023 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Double-striped thick-knee	Hesperoburhinus bistriatus (Wagler, 1829) Four subspecies H. b. bistriatus (Wagler, 1829) H. b. vocifer (L'Herminier, 1837) H. b. pediacus (Wetmore & Borrero), 1964 H. b. dominicensis (Cory, 1883)	southern Mexico south to Colombia, Venezuela and northern Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Peruvian thick-knee	Hesperoburhinus superciliaris (Tschudi, 1843)	Chile, Ecuador, and Peru	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU

Phylogeny

Chionidi	Chionidae Pluvianellus socialis Chionis albus Chionis minor Burhinidae Hesperoburhinus H. bistriatus H. superciliaris Esacus E. magnirostris E. recurvirostris Burhinus B. capensis B. vermiculatus B. grallarius B. oedicnemus B. senegalensis