Woodpeckers (Picidae)

Black-rumped Flameback (Dinopium benghalense) - HBW 7, p. 546

French: Pic du Bengale German: Orangespecht Spanish: Pito Bengalí
Other common names: Lesser Flameback/Goldenback, Lesser/Black-rumped Golden-backed Woodpecker; Ceylon Golden-backed Woodpecker (psarodes)

Taxonomy: Picus benghalensis Linnaeus, 1758, Bengal.
S Sri Lankan race sometimes referred to as erithronothos (or, erroneously, as erithronothon), but psarodes has priority. Clinal decrease in size and variation in colour from N to S, and considerable individual variation, together with intergrading of populations, all combine to make racial delimitation difficult; indeed, W Indian birds sometimes separated as race tehminae and those in N Sri Lanka as jaffnense, but both probably more appropriately included in puncticolle. Four subspecies currently recognized.

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