Dryobates
Genus of birds
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 .[1]
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.[2] In the eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World , the genus Dryobates is expanded to include all the species in Leuconotopicus and Veniliornis .[3]
The genus contains the following species:[4]
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
Male
Female
Dryobates nuttallii (Gambel, 1843)
northern California extending south towards the northwest region of Baja California, Mexico
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Downy woodpecker
Male
Female
Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)
North America
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Ladder-backed woodpecker
Male
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
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Lesser spotted woodpecker
Male
Female
Dryobates minor (Linnaeus, 1758)
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
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Crimson-naped woodpecker
Dryobates cathpharius (Blyth, 1843)
D. c. ludlowi
D. c. pyrrhothorax
Bhutan , China , India , Myanmar and Nepal
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Necklaced woodpecker
Dryobates pernyii (Verreaux, J,, 1867)
Bangladesh , China , Laos , Myanmar , Thailand , and Vietnam
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References
^ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht" . Isis von Oken (in German). 18–19. Jena. Col 977.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 140 . ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^ Clements, J.F.; Schulenberg, T.S.; Iliff, M.J.; Billerman, S.M.; Fredericks, T.A.; Sullivan, B.L.; Wood, C.L. (2021). "The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2021" . Retrieved 14 January 2022 .
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers" . World Bird List Version 6.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016 .