| Flamebacks | |
|---|---|
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| Common flameback (Dinopium javanense) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Tribe: | Picini |
| Genus: | Dinopium Rafinesque, 1814 |
| Type species | |
| Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus[1] Rafinesque, 1814 | |
| Species | |
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Dinopium is agenus of birds in the woodpecker familyPicidae. The species are found inSouth andSoutheast Asia.
The genus was introduced by the FrenchpolymathConstantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1814 to accommodate thecommon flameback (Dinopium javanense).[2][3] The name combines theClassical Greekdeinos meaning "mighty" or "huge" andōps/ōpos meaning "appearance".[4]
A large phylogenetic study of the woodpecker family Picidae published in 2017 found that the genus wasparaphyletic. The olive-backed woodpecker (Dinopium rafflesii) is more closely related to thepale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) than it is to other members of the genusDinopium.[5]
As presently constituted, the genus contains the following 5 species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
_female_(21492912679)_(2).jpg) | Dinopium shorii | Himalayan flameback | Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal |
 | Dinopium javanense | Common flameback | Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam |
 | Dinopium everetti | Spot-throated flameback | island of Palawan in the Philippines. |
 | Dinopium benghalense | Black-rumped flameback | Pakistan, India south of the Himalayas and east till the western Assam valley and Meghalaya, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka |
 | Dinopium psarodes | Red-backed flameback | Sri Lanka |
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