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Melanerpes

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Melanerpes
Red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Tribe: Melanerpini
Genus: Melanerpes
Swainson, 1832
Type species
Picus erythrocephalus[1]
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Melanerpes is a genus of woodpeckers of the family Picidae found in the New World. The 24 members of the genus are mostly colourful birds, conspicuously barred in black and white, with some red and yellow.

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Taxonomy

The genus Melanerpes was introduced by the English ornithologist William John Swainson in 1832 to accommodate the red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).[2] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" with herpēs meaning "creeper".[3] The genus forms part of the large tribe Melanerpini, which also includes the North American sapsuckers in the genus Sphyrapicus and the monotypic genus Xiphidiopicus containing only the Cuban green woodpecker (Xiphidiopicus percussus).[4]

Characteristics

Members of Melanerpes are small to medium-sized woodpeckers found exclusively in the New World. Some are West Indian endemics, and include species from Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Guadeloupe; one subspecies, the Grand Bahama West Indian woodpecker (M. superciliaris bahamensis) became extinct in the 1950s. The majority of the species are from Central and South America.[5] Most species are boldly marked in black and white, with some areas of red and yellow.[6] The beaks are long and pointed, and sometimes curved. The sexes differ in many species, both in colour and in size.[5]

Some species such as the acorn woodpecker and the yellow-tufted woodpecker are sociable, foraging in groups, communicating vocally and nesting communally. These have complex breeding systems including some non-breeding adult helpers assisting in rearing the young. Like other woodpeckers, insects form a large part of the diet, being caught on the wing in some species, but fruit is also eaten in large quantities and some species consume sap. They all nest in holes that they excavate in trees, and the red-crowned woodpecker and the Hoffmann's woodpecker are unusual in that they sometimes enter their holes backwards.[6]

Species

The genus includes 25 species:[7]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
White woodpecker Melanerpes candidus Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.
Lewis's woodpecker Melanerpes lewis western and central United States
Guadeloupe woodpecker Melanerpes herminieri Guadeloupe archipelago
Puerto Rican woodpecker Melanerpes portoricensis Puerto Rico
Red-headed woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus southern Canada and the east-central United States.
Acorn woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus Oregon, California, and the southwestern United States, south through Central America to Colombia.
Yellow-tufted woodpecker Melanerpes cruentatus Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Yellow-fronted woodpecker Melanerpes flavifrons Brazil, Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina.
Golden-naped woodpecker Melanerpes chrysauchen Costa Rica and western Panama
Beautiful woodpecker Melanerpes pulcher Colombia.
Black-cheeked woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani southeastern Mexico south to western Ecuador.
White-fronted woodpecker Melanerpes cactorum Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.
Hispaniolan woodpecker Melanerpes striatus Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
Jamaican woodpecker Melanerpes radiolatus Jamaica.
Golden-cheeked woodpecker Melanerpes chrysogenys Mexico
Grey-breasted woodpecker Melanerpes hypopolius southwestern Mexico.
Yucatan woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus Belize and Mexico
Red-crowned woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Tobago.
Gila woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis southwestern United States and western Mexico.
Hoffmann's woodpecker Melanerpes hoffmannii southern Honduras south to Costa Rica
Golden-fronted woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons Texas and Oklahoma in the United States through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and northern Nicaragua.
Velasquez's woodpecker Melanerpes santacruzi southern Mexico and parts of Central America.
Red-bellied woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus eastern United States
West Indian woodpecker Melanerpes superciliaris Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and Cuba.

References

  1. ^ "Picidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ Swainson, William John (1831). Richardson, John (ed.). Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America : containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N.: Part 2, The Birds. p. 316. The title page gives the date as 1831 but the volume was not actually published until the following year.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Shakya, S.B.; Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.-M.; Sheldon, F.H. (2017). "Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 116: 182–191. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005. PMID 28890006.
  5. ^ a b Winkler, Hans; Christie, David A. (2010). Woodpeckers. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-4081-3504-4.
  6. ^ a b Gorman, Gerard (2014). Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide. Firefly Books. p. 102. ISBN 978-1770853096.
  7. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  8. ^ Campbell, Kenneth E.; Bochenski, Zbigniew M. (2021-12-01). "A review of the woodpeckers (Aves: Piciformes) from the asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, California, with the description of three new species". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 101 (4): 1013–1026. doi:10.1007/s12549-020-00444-1. ISSN 1867-1608. S2CID 231716382.

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