Anaplectes
Genus of birds
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Anaplectes is a genus of African birds in the weaver family Ploceidae.
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| Anaplectes | |
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| Male red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Anaplectes Reichenbach, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Ploceus melanotis[1] = Ploceus leuconotus Lafresnaye, 1840 | |
Taxonomy
The genus Anaplectes was introduced in 1863 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Richard Bowdler Sharpe as Ploceus leuconotus Müller, JW 1851, now a subspecies of the red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps).[3][4]
The genus contains the following two species:[5]
- Red-headed weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Red weaver Anaplectes jubaensis
