Dinopium


Dinopium is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are found in South and Southeast Asia.
The genus was introduced by the French polymath Constantine [Samuel Rafinesque] in 1814 to accommodate the common flameback. The name combines the Classical Greek deinos meaning "mighty" or "huge" and ōps/ōpos meaning "appearance".
A large phylogenetic study of the woodpecker family Picidae published in 2017 found that the genus was paraphyletic. The olive-backed woodpecker is more closely related to the pale-headed woodpecker than it is to other members of the genus Dinopium.

Species

As presently constituted, the genus contains the following 5 species:
ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Dinopium shoriiHimalayan flamebackBangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal
Dinopium javanenseCommon flamebackBangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
Dinopium everettiSpot-throated flamebackisland of Palawan in the Philippines.
Dinopium benghalenseBlack-rumped flamebackPakistan, India south of the Himalayas and east till the western Assam valley and Meghalaya, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Dinopium psarodesRed-backed flamebackSri Lanka