Hesperoburhinus
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Burhinus_bistriatus_Alcaraván_Venezolano_Double-striped_Thick-Knee_(16153130620).jpg
| image_caption = Double-striped thick-knee (H. bistriatus)
| taxon = Hesperoburhinus
| authority = Černý, van Els, Natale & Gregory, 2023
| type_species = Charadrius bistriatus
| type_species_authority= Wagler, 1829
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Hesperoburhinus is a genus of birds in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae. The genus is distributed in Middle and South America. It contains two species, the double-striped thick-knee and the Peruvian thick-knee.
Taxonomy and phylogeny
The genus Hesperoburhinus was introduced in 2023 by American ornithologists David Černý, Rossy Natale, American and Dutch ornithologist Paul van Els, and British ornithologist Steven Martin Stewart Gregory to accommodate the double-striped thick-knee and the Peruvian thick-knee. The name is from Ancient Greek hésperos (ἑσπερος, means "western"), and the pre-existing name Burhinus, because it is the only genus of the stone-curlew family Burhinidae which is distributed in the western hemisphere.{{cite journal |last1=Černý |first1=D. |last2=van Els |first2=P. |last3=Natale |first3=R. |last4=Gregory |first4=S.M.S. |title=A new genus-group name for Burhinus bistriatus (Wagler, 1829) and Burhinus superciliaris (Tschudi, 1843) |journal=Avian Systematics |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=31–43 |year=2023 |url=https://www.aviansystematics.org/uploads/texteditor/AS_1_3_PDFA.pdf|issn = 2051-4441}}
= Species =
The genus contains two species:{{IOC_birdlist|14.1}}
{{Species table |genus= Hesperoburhinus |authority-name=Černý, van Els, Natale & Gregory |authority-year=2023 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Double-striped thick-knee |binomial=Hesperoburhinus bistriatus
|image=File:Flickr - Rainbirder - Double-striped Thick-Knee (Burhinus bistriatus), crop.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Wagler |authority-year=1829 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= southern Mexico south to Colombia, Venezuela and northern Brazil
|range-image=File:Burhinus bistriatus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on
| H. b. bistriatus (Wagler, 1829)
| H. b. vocifer (L'Herminier, 1837)
| H. b. pediacus (Wetmore & Borrero), 1964
| H. b. dominicensis (Cory, 1883)
}}
}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Peruvian thick-knee |binomial=Hesperoburhinus superciliaris
|image=File:Peruvian Thick-knee (Burhinus superciliaris), crop.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Tschudi |authority-year=1843 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Chile, Ecuador, and Peru
|range-image=File:Burhinus superciliaris map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= VU
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{{Species table/end}}
= Phylogeny =
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| label2=Burhinus
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| 1=B. capensis
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| 1=B. grallarius
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| 1=B. oedicnemus
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