Campephilus

Campephilus is a genus of large American woodpeckers in the family Picidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Campephilus was introduced by English zoologist George [Robert Gray] in 1840, with the ivory-billed woodpecker as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek kampē meaning "caterpillar" and philos meaning "loving". The genus is placed in the tribe Campephilini in the subfamily Picinae and is sister to a clade containing woodpeckers from Southeast Asia in the genera Chrysocolaptes, Blythipicus, and Reinwardtipicus.

The genus contains 12 species:

Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution	IUCN status
	Powerful woodpecker	Campephilus pollens	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
	Splendid woodpecker	Campephilus splendens	Panama, western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador
	Crimson-bellied woodpecker	Campephilus haematogaster	Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
	Red-necked woodpecker	Campephilus rubricollis	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
	Robust woodpecker	Campephilus robustus	Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
	Crimson-crested woodpecker	Campephilus melanoleucos	Panama south to northern border regions of Argentina, and on Trinidad.
	Guayaquil woodpecker	Campephilus gayaquilensis	southern Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru.
	Pale-billed woodpecker	Campephilus guatemalensis	northern Mexico to western Panama.
	Cream-backed woodpecker	Campephilus leucopogon	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and far northwestern Uruguay.
	Magellanic woodpecker	Campephilus magellanicus	southern Chile and southwestern Argentina
	Ivory-billed woodpecker	Campephilus principalis	Southern United States
	Cuban [ivory-billed woodpecker]	Campephilus principalis bairdii	Cuba
	Imperial woodpecker	Campephilus imperialis – possibly extinct	Mexico	possibly

A fossil species, C. dalquesti, was described from bones found in Late Pleistocene deposits of Scurry County, Texas.