Dinopium
Genus of birds
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Dinopium is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are found in South and Southeast Asia.
| Flamebacks | |
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| Common flameback (Dinopium javanense) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Tribe: | Picini |
| Genus: | Dinopium Rafinesque, 1814 |
| Type species | |
| Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus[1] Rafinesque, 1814 | |
| Species | |
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The genus was introduced by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1814 to accommodate the common flameback (Dinopium javanense).[2][3] The name combines the Classical Greek deinos meaning "mighty" or "huge" and ōps/ōpos meaning "appearance".[4]
A large phylogenetic study of the woodpecker family Picidae published in 2017 found that the genus was paraphyletic. The olive-backed woodpecker (Dinopium rafflesii) is more closely related to the pale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) than it is to other members of the genus Dinopium.[5]
Species
As presently constituted, the genus contains the following 5 species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
_female_(21492912679)_(2).jpg) | Dinopium shorii | Himalayan flameback | Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal |
 | Dinopium javanense | Common flameback | Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam |
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Dinopium everetti | Spot-throated flameback | island of Palawan in the Philippines. |
 | Dinopium benghalense | Black-rumped flameback | Pakistan, India south of the Himalayas and east till the western Assam valley and Meghalaya, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka |
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Dinopium psarodes | Red-backed flameback | Sri Lanka |
