Leuconotopicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae native to North and South America.
Leuconotopicus | |
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White-headed woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Melanerpini |
Genus: | Leuconotopicus Malherbe, 1845 |
Species | |
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The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with Strickland's woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) as the type species.[1] The name Leuconotopicus combines the Ancient Greek leukos meaning "white", nōton meaning "back" and pikos meaning "woodpecker".[2] The genus is sister to the genus Veniliornis and is one of eight genera placed in the tribe Melanerpini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae.[3] The species now placed in this genus were previously assigned to Picoides.[4][5]
The genus contains the following six species:[5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Leuconotopicus borealis | Red-cockaded woodpecker | southeastern United States from Florida to Virginia, as far west as eastern Texas and Oklahoma; formerly Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee | |
Leuconotopicus fumigatus | Smoky-brown woodpecker | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela | |
Leuconotopicus arizonae | Arizona woodpecker | southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico | |
Leuconotopicus stricklandi | Strickland's woodpecker | Mexico | |
Leuconotopicus villosus | Hairy woodpecker | Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States; vagrant to Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, | |
Leuconotopicus albolarvatus | White-headed woodpecker | British Columbia through southern California |