The buff-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tristis'') is a species of
bird in the family
Picidae
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. M ...
.
It is found in southern
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
,
Thailand,
Malaya
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
,
Java,
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
and
Borneo.
Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical dry
forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The buff-rumped woodpecker was
described by the American naturalist
Thomas Horsfield in 1821 under the
binomial name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''Picus tristis'' from a specimen collected in
Java. The specific epithet ''tristis'' is Latin for "sad" or "gloomy". The species is now placed in the genus ''
Meiglyptes
''Meiglyptes'' is a genus of Southeast Asian birds in the family woodpecker family Picidae.
The genus was introduced by the English naturalist William John Swainson in 1837 with the white-rumped woodpecker (''Meiglyptes tristis'') as the type s ...
'' that was introduced by the English naturalist
William John Swainson
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.
Life
Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of ...
in 1837.
Two
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
are recognised:
[
* ''M. t. grammithorax'' ( Malherbe, 1862) – ]Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...
, Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
, Borneo and nearby islands
* ''M. t. tristis'' (Horsfield, 1821) – Java
Some authorities treat the two subspecies as separate species with ''M. grammithorax'' as the buff-rumped woodpecker and ''M. tristis'' as the white-rumped woodpecker.
References
External links
Image at ADW
buff-rumped woodpecker
Birds of Malesia
buff-rumped woodpecker
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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