Harpactes

Harpactes
Malabar trogon, Harpactes fasciatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Trogoniformes
Family:Trogonidae
Genus:Harpactes
Swainson, 1833
Synonyms

Duvaucelius

Harpactes is a genus of birds in the family Trogonidae found in forests in South and Southeast Asia, extending into southernmost China. They are strongly sexually dimorphic, with females generally being duller than males. Their back is brownish, the tail is partially white (best visible from below), and males of most species have red underparts. They feed on arthropods, small lizards and fruit.

Two species, cinnamon-rumped and scarlet-rumped trogons, were previously classified in a separate genus, Duvaucelius, and a 2010 study found that these two were closely related and formed a separate clade from all of the other Harpactes trogons (except orange-breasted trogon, which forms a third group), but recommended that all three groups should be treated as congeneric.[1] This same study also found that the genus Apalharpactes, containing two species sometimes included in Harpactes, is actually distantly related and thus a valid genus.

Species

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Malabar trogonHarpactes fasciatusSri Lanka and peninsular India
Red-naped trogonHarpactes kasumbaBrunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
Diard's trogonHarpactes diardiiBrunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand
Philippine trogonHarpactes ardensPhilippines.
Whitehead's trogonHarpactes whiteheadiBorneo
Cinnamon-rumped trogonHarpactes orrhophaeusThailand and Malaysia
Scarlet-rumped trogonHarpactes duvauceliiBrunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand
Red-headed trogonHarpactes erythrocephalusNorth-Eastern India, Bangladesh and Central Nepal to Southern China, through the Malay Peninsula all the way to areas of Sumatra
Orange-breasted trogonHarpactes oreskiosCambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
Ward's trogonHarpactes wardiBhutan, India, Tibet, Myanmar and northern Vietnam

References

  • Allen, R. (2001). Genus Harpactes. pp. 106–111 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, & J. Sargatal. eds. (2001). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Mousebirds to Hornbills. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-30-X
  1. ↑ Peter A. Hosner, Frederick H. Sheldon, Haw Chuan Lim, Robert G. Moyle (2010) Phylogeny and biogeography of the Asian trogons (Aves: Trogoniformes) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Volume 57, Issue 3, December 2010, Pages 1219–1225
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