Dendrocolaptes
Dendrocolaptes is a genus of Neotropical birds in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily.
The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Johann Hermann in 1804. The type species was subsequently designated as the Amazonian barred woodcreeper by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek δένδρον, meaning "tree", and κολάπτης, meaning "chiseller, pecker".
Species
The genus contains the following five species:| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
| Dendrocolaptes certhia | Amazonian barred woodcreeper | (Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, French Guiana, Colombia,Venezuela, also Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. | |
| Dendrocolaptes hoffmannsi | Hoffmanns's woodcreeper | Brazil, south of the Amazon river | |
| Dendrocolaptes picumnus | Black-banded woodcreeper | from Chiapas to Paraguay and northern Argentina. | |
| Dendrocolaptes platyrostris | Planalto woodcreeper | Brazil, Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina. | |
| Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae | Northern barred woodcreeper | southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador. |