Coccopygia
Coccopygia, is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus Coccopygia was introduced in 1862 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The name combines the Ancient Greek kokkos meaning "scarlet" with -pugios meaning "-rumped". The type species was designated as the swee waxbill by Richard [Bowdler Sharpe] in 1890. The genus Coccopygia is sister to the olivebacks in the genus Nesocharis.Species
The genus contains three species:| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
| Coccopygia quartinia | Yellow-bellied waxbill | East Africa | |
| Coccopygia melanotis | Swee waxbill | Southern Africa | |
| Coccopygia bocagei | Angola waxbill | Angola |