Blythipicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.
The name was chosen to honour the English zoologist
Edward Blyth whose name is combined with the Latin
picus meaning "woodpecker".
The
type species was subsequently designated as the maroon woodpecker (
Blythipicus rubiginosus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.
The genus is in the tribe Campephilini, one of five tribes that make up the woodpecker
subfamily Picinae. The genus
Blythipicus is
Sister taxon to a
clade containing the genera
Reinwardtipicus and
Chrysocolaptes.
Species
The genus contains two species:
