Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)

Red-striped Flowerpecker (Dicaeum australe) - HBW 13, p. 375

French: Dicée des Philippines German: Rostbauch-Mistelfresser Spanish: Picaflores Filipino
Other common names: Red-keeled/Austral/Philippine Flowerpecker

Taxonomy: Pipra australis Hermann, 1783, New Guinea; error = Luzon, Philippines.
Forms a superspecies with D. haematostictum, and sometimes considered conspecific; D. retrocinctum possibly part of same superspecies, but differs in several characters. Tongue morphology of present species similar to that of D. melanoxanthum and D. hypoleucum. Geographical variation minor; birds from Cebu described as race flaviventer, but considered insufficiently distinct from those in rest of range to warrant recognition. Monotypic.

Distribution: Philippines (except islands from Mindoro S to Palawan, and E to Sibuyan, Panay and Negros).