| Dicaeum | |
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| Male Wakatobi flowerpecker (Dicaeum celebicum kuehni) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Dicaeidae |
| Genus: | Dicaeum Cuvier, 1816 |
| Species | |
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Pale-billed flowerpecker Dicaeum erythrorhynchos with a Muntingia calabura berry (Hyderabad, India)
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Thick-billed flowerpecker Dicaeum agile on Helicteres isora
Dicaeum is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia. The genus is closely related to the genus Prionochilus and forms a monophyletic group.[1][2]
Its members are very small, stout, often brightly coloured birds, 10 to 18 cm in length, with short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues. The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken.
2-4 eggs are laid, typically in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.
Species in taxonomic order
The following species are recognized:[3]
- Golden-rumped flowerpecker (Dicaeum annae)
- Thick-billed flowerpecker (Dicaeum agile)
- Striped flowerpecker (Dicaeum aeruginosum)
- Brown-backed flowerpecker (Dicaeum everetti)
- Whiskered flowerpecker (Dicaeum proprium)
- Yellow-vented flowerpecker (Dicaeum chrysorrheum)
- Yellow-bellied flowerpecker (Dicaeum melanozanthum)
- Legge's flowerpecker (Dicaeum vincens)
- Yellow-sided flowerpecker (Dicaeum aureolimbatum)
- Olive-capped flowerpecker (Dicaeum nigrilore)
- Flame-crowned flowerpecker (Dicaeum anthonyi)
- Bicolored flowerpecker (Dicaeum bicolor)
- Red-keeled flowerpecker (Dicaeum australe)
- Black-belted flowerpecker (Dicaeum haematostictum)
- Scarlet-collared flowerpecker (Dicaeum retrocinctum)
- Cebu flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor)
- Orange-bellied flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma)
- Buzzing flowerpecker (Dicaeum hypoleucum)
- Pale-billed flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrorhynchos)
- Nilgiri flowerpecker (Dicaeum concolor)
- Plain flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum)
- Andaman flowerpecker (Dicaeum virescens)
- Pygmy flowerpecker (Dicaeum pygmaeum)
- Crimson-crowned flowerpecker (Dicaeum nehrkorni)
- Flame-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrothorax)
- Halmahera flowerpecker (Dicaeum schistaceiceps)
- Ashy flowerpecker (Dicaeum vulneratum)
- Olive-crowned flowerpecker (Dicaeum pectorale)
- Red-capped flowerpecker (Dicaeum geelvinkianum)
- Louisiade flowerpecker (Dicaeum nitidum)
- Red-banded flowerpecker (Dicaeum eximium)
- Midget flowerpecker (Dicaeum aeneum)
- Mottled flowerpecker (Dicaeum tristrami)
- Black-fronted flowerpecker (Dicaeum igniferum)
- Blue-cheeked flowerpecker (Dicaeum maugei)
- Mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum)
- Grey-sided flowerpecker (Dicaeum celebicum)
- Black-sided flowerpecker (Dicaeum monticolum)
- Fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus)
- Blood-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum sanguinolentum)
- Scarlet-backed flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum)
- Scarlet-headed flowerpecker (Dicaeum trochileum)
- Spectacled flowerpecker (Dicaeum dayakorum)
References
- ^ Nyária, Árpád S.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Rice, Nathan H.; Moyle, Robert G. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships of flowerpeckers (Aves: Dicaeidae): Novel insights into the evolution of a tropical passerine clade". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (3): 613–19. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.014. hdl:1808/6569. PMID 19576993.
- ^ "Notes on flowerpeckers (Aves, Dicaeidae). 2, The primitive species of the genus Dicaeum. American Museum novitates ; no. 1991". American Museum Novitates. 1991. 1960. hdl:2246/3544.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 March 2018.