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Dinopium is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are found in South and Southeast Asia.

The genus was introduced by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1814 to accommodate the common flameback (Dinopium javanense).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The name combines the Classical Greek {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} meaning "mighty" or "huge" and ōps/ōpos meaning "appearance".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

A large phylogenetic study of the woodpecker family Picidae published in 2017 found that the genus was paraphyletic. The olive-backed woodpecker (Dinopium rafflesii) is more closely related to the pale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) than it is to other members of the genus Dinopium.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

SpeciesEdit

As presently constituted, the genus contains the following 5 species:<ref name=ioc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
File:Himalayan Flameback (Dinopium shorii) female (21492912679) (2).jpg Dinopium shorii Himalayan flameback Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal
File:Common Flame-back Woodpecker.jpg Dinopium javanense Common flameback Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
File:TigaEverettiSmit.jpg Dinopium everetti Spot-throated flameback island of Palawan in the Philippines.
File:Flameback Woodpecker.jpg Dinopium benghalense Black-rumped flameback Pakistan, India south of the Himalayas and east till the western Assam valley and Meghalaya, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
File:Red-backed flameback - Sri Lanka - 02.jpg Dinopium psarodes Red-backed flameback Sri Lanka

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