Anthreptes

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Anthreptes is a genus of passerine birds in the sunbird family, Nectariniidae.

These small birds are found in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Greater Sunda Islands, the Philippines and western Wallacea. Most species show marked sexual dichromatism with the male having more brightly coloured plumage.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus Anthreptes was introduced in 1832 by the English zoologist William Swainson with Cynniris javanica Swainson as the type species and only species in the genus.[3] The name Cynniris javanica is a junior synonym of Certhia malacensis that had been introduced in 1786 by Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli.[4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ανθος/anthos meaning "flower" or "blossom" with θρεπτης/threptēs meaning "feeder".[5]

Species

The genus contains 15 species:[6]

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
File:Flickr - Rainbirder - Plain-backed Sunbird male (Anthreptes reichenowi).jpg Plain-backed sunbird Anthreptes reichenowi Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania
File:Anthreptes anchietae, Cuchi, Birding Weto, a.jpg Anchieta's sunbird Anthreptes anchietae Angola, the DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia
File:Plain Sunbird.tif Plain sunbird Anthreptes simplex Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
File:Plain-throated Sunbird.jpg Brown-throated sunbird Anthreptes malacensis Myanmar to the Lesser Sundas and west Philippines.
File:Grey-throated Sunbird, female, Nueva Vizcaya, Luzon, Philippines.jpg Grey-throated sunbird Anthreptes griseigularis Philippines.
File:Anthreptes rhodolaemus 252216887.jpg Red-throated sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaemus Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
File:Flickr - Rainbirder - Mouse-brown Sunbird (Anthreptes gabonicus).jpg Mangrove sunbird Anthreptes gabonicus Senegal to northwestern Angola.
File:Western Violet-backed Sunbird, Sakania, DRC (12044306845).jpg Western violet-backed sunbird Anthreptes longuemarei sub-Saharan Africa
File:Anthreptes orientalis.jpg Eastern violet-backed sunbird Anthreptes orientalis Djibouti in north to Tanzania
Uluguru violet-backed sunbird Anthreptes neglectus eastern Kenya, eastern Tanzania, and north-eastern Mozambique.
File:Violet-tailed Sunbird iNaturalist.jpg Violet-tailed sunbird Anthreptes aurantius Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon.
File:Little green sunbird (Anthreptes seimundi kruensis) 3 (cropped).jpg Little green sunbird Anthreptes seimundi Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.
File:Anthreptes rectirostris 247962434.jpg Yellow-chinned sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris[7] Sierra Leone to Ghana.
Grey-chinned sunbird Anthreptes tephrolaemus[7] Nigeria to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola and Bioko.
Banded green sunbird Anthreptes rubritorques Tanzania.

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Nectariniidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cheke, R.A.; Mann, C.F. (2008). "Family Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D.A. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 13: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. pp. 196-321 [197]. ISBN 978-84-96553-45-3.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swainson, William; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Vol. 2: The Birds. London: J. Murray (published 1832). pp. 495–496. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was not published until 1832. See: Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Browning, M. Ralph; Monroe, Burt L. (1991). "Clarifications and corrections of the dates of issue of some publications containing descriptions of North American birds". Archives of Natural History. 18 (3): 381-405 [392]. doi:10.3366/anh.1991.18.3.381.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 209.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jobling, James A. "Anthreptes". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 28 September 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-05-27.
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