Erythropitta

Erythropitta is a genus of pitta. The members of the genus are found mostly in South-east Asia, with one species, the Papuan pitta, ranging into northeast Australia. The genus was formerly merged with the large genus Pitta, but a 2006 study split the family into three genera.

Erythropitta
Black-crowned pitta, Erythropitta ussheri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pittidae
Genus: Erythropitta
Bonaparte, 1854
Species

See text.

Taxonomy

The pittas were at one time all usually placed in the genus Pitta, the only genus in the family Pittidae, but when a 2006 molecular phylogenetic study found that the pittas formed three separate groups, the genus was split and some species were moved into two resurrected genera, Erythropitta and Hydrornis.[1] The genus Erythropitta had been introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the Papuan pitta (Erythropitta macklotii).[3] The name Erythropitta combines the Ancient Greek word eruthros "red" with the genus name Pitta.[4]

Pittas in this genus have red or crimson coloured underparts, greenish or blueish backs and short tails. They are mostly small in size.[1]

Species

The genus contains the following 15-17 species:[5]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Erythropitta kochiWhiskered pittaLuzon in the Philippines.
Erythropitta erythrogasterPhilippine pittaPhilippines.
Erythropitta dohertyiSula pittaSula and Banggai Islands
Erythropitta celebensisSulawesi pittaSulawesi, Manterawu, and Togian Islands
Erythropitta pallicepsSiau pittaSiau, and Tagulandang
Erythropitta caeruleitorquesSangihe pittaIndonesia in the Sangihe Islands
Erythropitta rubrinuchaSouth Moluccan pittaIndonesia on Buru and Seram.
Erythropitta rufiventrisNorth Moluccan pittanorthern Moluccas
Erythropitta meeki (Rothschild, 1898)Louisiade pittaLouisiade Archipelago in Papua New Guinea
Erythropitta novaehibernicaeBismarck pittaNew Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea
Erythropitta splendidaTabar pittaTabar Group in Papua New Guinea, some authorities still consider it as a subspecies of the Bismarck pitta
Erythropitta gazellaeNew Britain pittaNew Britain in Papua New Guinea, some authorities still consider it as a subspecies of the Bismarck pitta
Erythropitta macklotiiPapuan pittaAru Islands, New Guinea
Erythropitta arcuataBlue-banded pittaBorneo
Erythropitta granatinaGarnet pittaBrunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
Erythropitta venustaGraceful pittaSumatra, Indonesia
Erythropitta ussheriBlack-crowned pittaSabah in northern Borneo

References

  1. Irestedt, M.; Ohlson, J.I.; Zuccon, D.; Källersjö, M.; Ericson, P.G.P. (2006). "Nuclear DNA from old collections of avian study skins reveals the evolutionary history of the Old World suboscines (Aves: Passeriformes)" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. 35 (6): 567–580. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00249.x. S2CID 84788609.
  2. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). L'Ateneo Italiano; raccolta di documenti e memorie relative al progresso delle scienze fisiche compilato da S. de Luca e D. Müller. Vol. 2. Paris: Masson. p. 317.
  3. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 144.
  4. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "NZ wrens, broadbills, pittas". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
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