Aethopyga

Aethopyga
	Vigors's sunbird from Maharashtra, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Nectariniidae
Genus:	Aethopyga; Cabanis, 1851
Type species
	Certhia siparaja; (Crimson sunbird); Raffles, 1822
Species
	See text

Aethopyga is a genus of birds in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. Species in this genus are found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of China. Many species such as the grey-hooded sunbird, Apo sunbird, Apo sunbird, Tboli sunbird, metallic-winged sunbird, handsome sunbird and Lina's sunbird are endemic to the Philippines.

Taxonomy[]

The genus Aethopyga was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.^[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek aithos meaning "fire" or "burning heat" with pugē meaning "rump".^[2] The type species was designated as the crimson sunbird by George Robert Gray in 1855.^[3]^[4]

The genus contains 22 species:^[5]

Grey-hooded sunbird, Aethopyga primigenia
Apo sunbird, Aethopyga boltoni
Lina's sunbird, Aethopyga linaraborae
Flaming sunbird, Aethopyga flagrans
Maroon-naped sunbird, Aethopyga guimarasensis
Metallic-winged sunbird, Aethopyga pulcherrima
Luzon sunbird, Aethopyga jefferyi
Bohol sunbird, Aethopyga decorosa
Elegant sunbird, Aethopyga duyvenbodei
Lovely sunbird, Aethopyga shelleyi
Handsome sunbird, Aethopyga bella
Mrs. Gould's sunbird, Aethopyga gouldiae
Green-tailed sunbird, Aethopyga nipalensis
White-flanked sunbird, Aethopyga eximia
Fork-tailed sunbird, Aethopyga christinae
Black-throated sunbird, Aethopyga saturata
Crimson sunbird, Aethopyga siparaja
Magnificent sunbird Aethopyga magnifica
Vigors's sunbird, Aethopyga vigorsii
Javan sunbird, Aethopyga mystacalis
Temminck's sunbird, Aethopyga temminckii – sometimes included in A. mystacalis
Fire-tailed sunbird, Aethopyga ignicauda

^ Cabanis, Jean (1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Volume 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 103. |volume= has extra text (help)
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 19.
^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270. |volume= has extra text (help)
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

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