Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker
Dicaeum trochileum(Sparrman, A, 1789)
English (US) Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker
The Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum trochileum) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Dicaeidae (Flowerpeckers) in the order Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Dicaeum trochileum
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker
- Described by
- (Sparrman, A, 1789)
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The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Dicaeum trochileum trochileum
- Dicaeum trochileum stresemanni
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Certhia trochilea
- Described by
- (Sparrman, A, 1789)
- Type locality
- 'America?' [error = Java, fide Stresemann, 1923, Orn. Monatsb., 31, p. 41] .
- Original description
- Museum Carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves, coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas (etc.) fasc.4 no.80 pl.80
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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