Woodpeckers (Picidae)

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor) - HBW 7, p. 477

French: Pic épeichette German: Kleinspecht Spanish: Pico Menor
Other common names: Lesser Pied Woodpecker

Taxonomy: Picus minor Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Related to D. canicapillus and D. kizuki. Recent genetic data suggest also a link to North American “Picoides pubescens group”. Races intergrade extensively over species’ huge range, with many intermediate populations; numerous additional races have been described, but often on rather weak grounds, and differences are often part of a clinal variation. Named races not accepted include hispaniae (Spain), jordansi (C European mountains), serbicus (Montenegro), wagneri (Romania), hyrcanus (N.. View all taxonomy...

Subspecies and Distribution:

minor (Linnaeus, 1758) - N Europe from Scandinavia E to Ural Mts.
kamtschatkensis (Malherbe, 1861) - Urals E to R Anadyr and Kamchatka.
amurensis (Buturlin, 1908) - lower R Amur and Sakhalin S to NE Korea and N Japan (Hokkaido).

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minor (Linnaeus, 1758) - N Europe from Scandinavia E to Ural Mts.
kamtschatkensis (Malherbe, 1861) - Urals E to R Anadyr and Kamchatka.
amurensis (Buturlin, 1908) - lower R Amur and Sakhalin S to NE Korea and N Japan (Hokkaido).
comminutus Hartert, 1907 - SC & S Britain.
hortorum (C. L. Brehm, 1831) - France E to Poland and S to Switzerland, Hungary and N Romania.
buturlini (Hartert, 1912) - Iberia, S France and Italy E to Romania, Bulgaria and N Greece.
ledouci (Malherbe, 1855) - N Africa (NE Algeria, NW Tunisia).
danfordi (Hargitt, 1883) - Greece and Turkey.
colchicus (Buturlin, 1908) - Caucasus and Transcaucasia.
quadrifasciatus (Radde, 1884) - Lenkoran region of SE Transcaucasia.
morgani Zarudny & Loudon, 1904 - NW Iran and Zagros Mts.