Black-throated barbet

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = TricholaemaSmit.jpg

| image_caption = Black-throated barbet (above), and pied barbet (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1891

File:Black-throated Barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) (022A-WA03044X0004-0023M0).ogg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Tricholaema melanocephala |volume=2016 |page=e.T22681808A92921373 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681808A92921373.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Tricholaema

| species = melanocephala

| authority = (Cretzschmar, 1829)

| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies

| subdivision_ref =Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.

| subdivision =

• T. m. melanocephala – (Cretzschmar, 1829)
• T. m. blandi – Lort Phillips, 1897
• T. m. stigmatothorax – Cabanis, 1878
• T. m. flavibuccalis – Reichenow, 1893

| synonyms = *Tricholaema stigmatothorax

}}

The black-throated barbet (Tricholaema melanocephala) is a species of bird in the Lybiidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its distribution has moved northward.{{Citation |last=K. Nkwabi |first=Ally |title=Vegetation and Avifauna Distribution in the Serengeti National Park |date=2023-07-26 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.106165 |work=Environmental Sciences |access-date=2023-11-02 |publisher=IntechOpen |isbn=978-1-80356-137-0 |last2=Yoram Kavana |first2=Pius}}

File: Black-throated_Barbet.jpg – Kenya]]