Piculus
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| Adult male rufous-winged woodpecker (Piculus simplex) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Tribe: | Picini |
| Genus: | Piculus Spix, 1824 |
| Type species | |
| Piculus macrocephalus[1] von Spix, 1824
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Piculus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Central and South America.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the golden-green woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser in 1923.[3] The generic name is a diminutive of the Latin word Picus meaning "woodpecker".[4]
The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister relationship to the genus Dryocopus whose species are found in Eurasia and the Americas. The genus Piculus is a member of the tribe Picini and belongs to a clade that contains five genera: Colaptes, Piculus, Mulleripicus, Dryocopus and Celeus.[5]
The genus contains seven species:[6]
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Piculus simplex | Rufous-winged woodpecker | Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Formerly considered to be a subspecies of the white-throated woodpecker. |
| File:Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker (Piculus callopterus) 2.jpg | Piculus callopterus | Stripe-cheeked woodpecker | Panama. Formerly considered to be a subspecies of the white-throated woodpecker. |
| File:Piculus litae 104826755 (cropped).jpg | Piculus litae | Lita woodpecker | western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador |
| File:Piculus leucolaemus - White-throated woodpecker (male).jpg | Piculus leucolaemus | White-throated woodpecker | The Amazon Basin, Brazil, mainly in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia |
| File:Yellow-throated woodpecker (Piculus flavigula).jpg | Piculus flavigula | Yellow-throated woodpecker | Brazil and the entire Amazon Basin; also in the Guianas, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela |
| File:Golden-green Woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) (8079739212).jpg | Piculus chrysochloros | Golden-green woodpecker | The Amazon Basin in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru and Suriname |
| File:Piculus aurulentus Yellow-browed Woodpecker.jpg | Piculus aurulentus | Yellow-browed woodpecker | Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. |
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Five other species, formerly placed here, are now in Colaptes.
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