Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae) - HBW 13

Black-belted Flowerpecker (Dicaeum haematostictum)

French: Dicée à poitrine noire German: Schwarzgürtel-Mistelfresser Spanish: Picaflores Pechinegro
Other common names: Visayan/Guimaras/Red-keeled Flowerpecker

Taxonomy: Dicaeum haematostictum Sharpe, 1876, Guimaras, Philippines.
Forms a superspecies with D. australe, and sometimes considered conspecific; D. retrocinctum possibly part of same superspecies, but differs in several characters. Proposed race whiteheadi (described from Mt Canloan, on Negros) considered not distinguishable from birds elsewhere in range. Monotypic.

Distribution: Panay, Guimaras and Negros, in WC Philippines.