Aethopyga

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| image = ♂ Vigors's sunbird (Aethopyga vigorsii) Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg

| image_caption = Vigors's sunbird from Maharashtra, India

| taxon = Aethopyga

| authority = Cabanis, 1851

| type_species = Certhia siparaja
(Crimson sunbird)

| type_species_authority = Raffles, 1822

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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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, 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.{{ cite book | last=Cabanis | first=Jean | author-link=Jean Cabanis | year=1851 | title=Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt | volume=1 | language=German, Latin | location=Halberstadt | publisher=R. Frantz | page=103 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584482 }} The name combines the Ancient Greek aithos meaning "fire" or "burning heat" with pugē meaning "rump".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=35 }} The type species was designated as the crimson sunbird by George Robert Gray in 1855.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1855 | title=Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum | location=London | publisher=British Museum | page=19 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136639 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1986 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=12 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=270 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482387 }}

=Species=

The genus contains 21 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/dippers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=25 March 2025 }}

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
class="wikitable"
120px	Grey-hooded sunbird	Aethopyga primigenia	Philippines.
120px	Apo sunbird	Aethopyga boltoni	Philippines
120px	Tboli sunbird	Aethopyga tibolii	southern Mindanao in the Philippines
120px	Lina's sunbird	Aethopyga linaraborae	Mindanao in the Philippines
	Flaming sunbird	Aethopyga flagrans	northern Philippines.
120px	Maroon-naped sunbird	Aethopyga guimarasensis	Philippines (Negros Island, Panay and Guimaras).
120px	Metallic-winged sunbird	Aethopyga pulcherrima	Philippines.
	Elegant sunbird	Aethopyga duyvenbodei	Indonesia
120px	Lovely sunbird	Aethopyga shelleyi	Philippines.
120px	Handsome sunbird	Aethopyga bella	Philippines.
120px	Mrs. Gould's sunbird	Aethopyga gouldiae	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, India, Vietnam and Southern China.
120px	Green-tailed sunbird	Aethopyga nipalensis	Indian subcontinent, stretching eastwards into parts of Southeast Asia.
120px	White-flanked sunbird	Aethopyga eximia	Indonesia.
120px	Fork-tailed sunbird	Aethopyga christinae	China, Hong Kong, Laos, and Vietnam.
120px	Black-throated sunbird	Aethopyga saturata	Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
120px	Crimson sunbird	Aethopyga siparaja	India, through Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to Indonesia and Brunei.
120px	Magnificent sunbird	Aethopyga magnifica	Negros Island, Panay, Cebu, Tablas Island and Romblon.
120px	Vigors's sunbird	Aethopyga vigorsii	Western Ghats of India.
120px	Javan sunbird	Aethopyga mystacalis	Java and Bali, Indonesia.
120px	Temminck's sunbird	Aethopyga temminckii	Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand
120px	Fire-tailed sunbird	Aethopyga ignicauda	Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet.

References

Category:Bird genera

Category:Birds of Indomalaya

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot