The purple-naped spiderhunter or purple-naped sunbird (''Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum'') is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is the only species in the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

''Kurochkinegramma''. It is found in Southeast Asia from Myanmar to Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

subtropical The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical zone, geographical and Köppen climate classification, climate zones to the Northern Hemisphere, north and Southern Hemisphere, south of the tropics. Geographically part of the Geographical z ...

or tropical moist lowland forests. A study published in 2011 appeared to show that the purple-naped spiderhunter was phylogenetically nested within the genus ''

Arachnothera The spiderhunters are birds of the genus ''Arachnothera'', part of the sunbird family Nectariniidae. The genus contains thirteen species found in the forests of south and southeastern Asia. They are large representatives of the sunbird family, wi ...

''. A subsequent 2017 study, conducted by some of the same authors and using additional sequence data, found that the purple-naped spiderhunter occupied a

basal Basal or basilar is a term meaning ''base'', ''bottom'', or ''minimum''. Science * Basal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location for features associated with the base of an organism or structure * Basal (medicine), a minimal level that is nec ...

position to ''Arachnothera''. It was formerly placed in the genus ''Hypogramma'' until it was realised that the name was preoccupied within

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

References

External links

Image at ADW
purple-naped spiderhunter Birds of Southeast Asia purple-naped spiderhunter Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN Taxa named by Salomon Müller {{Nectariniidae-stub