Coccopygia
Genus of birds
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Coccopygia is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
| Coccopygia | |
|---|---|
| |
| Swee waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Subfamily: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Coccopygia Reichenbach, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Fringilla melanotis swee waxbill Temminck, 1823 | |
| Species | |
|
Coccopygia quartinia | |
Taxonomy
The genus Coccopygia was introduced in 1862 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek kokkos meaning "scarlet" with -pugios meaning "-rumped".[2] The type species was designated as the swee waxbill by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1890.[3][4] The genus Coccopygia is sister to the olivebacks in the genus Nesocharis.[5]
Species
The genus contains three species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Coccopygia quartinia | Yellow-bellied waxbill | East Africa |
 | Coccopygia melanotis | Swee waxbill | South and east of South Africa |
_Plate_33,_1905_(14753266334).jpg) | Coccopygia bocagei | Angola waxbill | Western Angola |
