Dryobates

Dryobates
File:Picoides nuttallii -Olive View, Sylmar, California, USA -male-8.jpg
Male Nuttall's woodpecker in California, USA
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Tribe:	Melanerpini
Genus:	Dryobates F. Boie, 1826
Species
Seven, see text

Dryobates is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are widely distributed and occur in both Eurasia and the Americas.

Taxonomy

The genus Dryobates was named by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) as the type species.

The genus name Dryobates is from the Greek compound word δρυο-βάτης : 'woodland walker'; from δρῦς : drus (genitive δρυός : dryós) meaning woodland and -βάτης : -bátēs meaning walker. In the eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, the genus Dryobates is expanded to include all the species in Leuconotopicus and Veniliornis.

The genus contains the following species:

Genus Dryobates – F. Boie, 1826 – Six species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Nuttall's woodpecker File:Nuttall's Woodpecker.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Dryobates nuttallii (Gambel, 1843)	northern California extending south towards the northwest region of Baja California, Mexico Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Downy woodpecker File:Downy Woodpecker01.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) Seven subspecies D. p. glacialis (Grinnell, 1910) D. p. medianus (Swainson, 1832) D. p. fumidus (Maynard, 1889) D. p. gairdnerii (Audubon, 1839) D. p. turati (Malherbe, 1860) D. p. leucurus (Hartlaub, 1852) D. p. pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)	North America Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Ladder-backed woodpecker File:Ladder-back Woodpecker on Cactus.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Dryobates scalaris (Wagler, 1829)	Southwestern United States (north to extreme southern Nevada and extreme southeastern Colorado), most of Mexico, and locally in Central America as far south as Nicaragua Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Lesser spotted woodpecker File:Dendrocopos minor 291108.jpg Male {{{image2-alt}}} Female	Dryobates minor (Linnaeus, 1758) Thirteen subspecies D. m. comminutus (Hartert, 1907) D. m. minor (Linnaeus, 1758) D. m. kamtschatkensis (Malherbe, 1860) D. m. immaculatus (Stejneger, 1884) D. m. amurensis (Buturlin, 1908) D. m. hortorum (Brehm, CL, 1831) D. m. buturlini Hartert, 1912 D. m. danfordi (Hargitt, 1883) D. m. colchicus (Buturlin, 1908) D. m. quadrifasciatus (Radde, 1884) D. m. hyrcanus (Zarudny & Bilkevitch, 1913) D. m. morgani (Zarudny & Loudon, 1904) D. m. ledouci (Malherbe, 1855) – northwest Africa	Europe and northern Asia Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Crimson-naped woodpecker File:Crimson-breasted Woodpecker - Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary - Arunachal Pradesh, India.jpg	Dryobates cathpharius (Blyth, 1843) Two subspecies D. c. ludlowi D. c. pyrrhothorax	Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Necklaced woodpecker File:Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos cathpharius) (8077151664).jpg	Dryobates pernyii (Verreaux, J,, 1867)	Bangladesh, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC