Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)
Louisiade Flowerpecker (Dicaeum nitidum) - HBW 13, p. 384
French:
Dicée des Louisiade
German: Louisiadenmistelfresser
Spanish:
Picaflores de las Luisiada
Other common names: Papuan Flowerpecker
Taxonomy: Dicaeum
nitidum Tristram, 1889, Sudest (= Tagula) Island, Louisiade
Archipelago, New Guinea.
Forms
a superspecies with D. nehrkorni, D. erythrothorax,
D. vulneratum, D. pectorale, D.
geelvinkianum, D. eximium and D. aeneum.
Could perhaps be considered conspecific with D. pectorale and/or
D. geelvinkianum. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- nitidum Tristram, 1889 - Louisiade Archipelago (Misima I, Tagula I), off SE New Guinea.
- rosseli Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1914 - Rossel I, in E Louisiades.
- Least Concern
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