Flowerpeckers (Dicaeidae)
Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum trochileum) - HBW 13, p. 389
French:
Dicée à tête écarlate
German: Feuerkopf-Mistelfresser
Spanish: Picaflores
Cabecirrojo
Taxonomy: Certhia
trochilea Sparrman, 1789, “America?”; error=
Java.
Sometimes
considered to form a superspecies with D. cruentatum. Hybrid
between present species and D. cruentatum recorded in E Borneo
(Samarinda). Race stresemanni only weakly differentiated from
nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- trochileum (Sparrman, 1789) - Bangka, S Sumatra (Lampung), S & E Borneo, Java (including Madura), Karimunjawa Is and Bawean (both N of Java), Kangean Is and Bali.
- stresemanni Rensch, 1928 - Lombok.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Male helping female collecting fibres
Locality Yogyakarta Province, Java (Indonesia) (ssp trochileum)
Imam Taufiqurrahman 6 June 2009 50 weeks ago 3.5 -
Female plucking fibres from the fruit of a milkweed (Calotropis gigantea)
Locality Yogyakarta Province, Java (Indonesia) (ssp trochileum)
Imam Taufiqurrahman 6 June 2009 50 weeks ago 3
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