Veniliornis


Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are native to the Neotropics.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. The word Veniliornis combines the name of the Roman deity Venilia with the Greek word ornis meaning "bird". The type species was designated as the blood-colored woodpecker by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.
The genus contains the following 14 species:
ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Scarlet-backed woodpeckerVeniliornis callonotusColombia, Ecuador and northern Peru
Yellow-vented woodpeckerVeniliornis dignusColombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
Bar-bellied woodpeckerVeniliornis nigricepsBolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Little woodpeckerVeniliornis passerinusSouth America east of the Andes
Dot-fronted woodpeckerVeniliornis frontalisArgentina and Bolivia.
White-spotted woodpeckerVeniliornis spilogasterBrazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
Blood-colored woodpeckerVeniliornis sanguineusGuyana, Suriname, and French Guiana
Red-rumped woodpeckerVeniliornis kirkiiCosta Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago
Red-stained woodpeckerVeniliornis affiniseastern Brazil and the Amazon Basin.
Chocó woodpeckerVeniliornis chocoensisColombia and Ecuador.
Golden-collared woodpeckerVeniliornis cassininorthern Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela and far eastern Colombia.
Yellow-eared woodpeckerVeniliornis maculifronseastern Brazil.
Striped woodpeckerVeniliornis lignarius - formerly in Picoidessouthwestern South America.
Checkered woodpeckerVeniliornis mixtus - formerly in Picoideseastern South America.