Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)
Red-banded Flowerpecker (Dicaeum eximium) - HBW 13, p. 384
French:
Dicée des Bismarck
German: Bismarckmistelfresser
Spanish:
Picaflores de las Bismarck
Other common names: Beautiful/New Ireland/Bismarck Flowerpecker
Taxonomy: Dicaeum
eximium P. L. Sclater, 1877, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago.
Forms
a superspecies with D. nehrkorni, D. erythrothorax,
D. vulneratum, D. pectorale, D.
geelvinkianum, D. nitidum and D. aeneum.
Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- eximium P. L. Sclater, 1877 - New Hanover and New Ireland (including Selapiu and Lihir Group), in N Bismarck Archipelago.
- phaeopygium Salomonsen, 1964 - Dyaul I (off W New Ireland).
- layardorum Salvadori, 1880 - New Britain (including islands of Lolobau and Watom), in S Bismarck Archipelago.
- Least Concern
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