Kingdom Animalia Genus Dicaeum Phylum Chordata Rank Species | Family Dicaeidae Scientific name Dicaeum trigonostigma Higher classification Dicaeum Order Passerine | |
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Similar Dicaeum, Bird, Scarlet‑backed flowerpecker, Flowerpecker, Blood‑breasted flowerpecker | ||
Orange bellied flowerpecker bird call
The orange-bellied flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma) is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
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Orange bellied flowerpecker dicaeum trigonostigma male b
Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Description
The male is blue with an orange belly and rump. Dicaeum trigonostigma melanostigma
Delacour (Birds of Malaysia, 1947) cited a name Dicaeum trigonostigma melanostigma, but because no description accompanied this name, and no type was identified, it was published as a nomen nudum.
He later (in litt.) asserted that the name was a lapsus (Salomonsen, American Mus. Novitates No. 1991 (1960)). However, melanostigma continued to be cited in various lists (Howard and Moore, Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World (1980, 1991)), as well as on websites which list birds common to Thailand and the surrounding region, thus possibly allowing for the inadvertent description of this name should any published reference to it accompany a picture of an orange-bellied flowerpecker. Dickinson (Complete Howard and Moore Checklist (2003)) also asserted that the name was a lapsus, but of Howard and Moore's, with no reference to Delacour.