Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)

Thick-billed Spiderhunter (Arachnothera crassirostris) - HBW 13, p. 317

French: Arachnothère à bec épais German: Dickschnabel-Spinnenjäger Spanish: Arañero Picogordo

Taxonomy: Arachnocestra crassirostris Reichenbach, 1853, no locality = Sumatra.
Proposed geographical race temmincki, described from Malay Archipelago, considered inadequately differentiated from birds elsewhere in species’ range. Monotypic.

Distribution: Malay Peninsula (including Singapore), Sumatra and Borneo.