Vidua
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Vidua is a genus of passerine birds in the family Viduidae.
The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The type species was subsequently designated as the pin-tailed whydah.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The name Vidua is a Latin word meaning "widow".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The genus contains 19 species:<ref name=ioc>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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File:Village indigobird, Vidua chalybeata, at Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa (male) (17849716130).jpg | Vidua chalybeata | Village indigobird | Africa south of the Sahara Desert. |
File:Male Purple Indigobird (Vidua purpurascens).jpg | Vidua purpurascens | Purple indigobird | Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
Vidua raricola | Jambandu indigobird | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Togo. | |
Vidua larvaticola | Barka indigobird | Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan. | |
File:Male Variable Indigobird (Vidua funerea).jpg | Vidua funerea | Dusky indigobird | Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe |
Vidua codringtoni | Zambezi indigobird | Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | |
Vidua wilsoni | Wilson's indigobird | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Togo. | |
Vidua nigeriae | Quailfinch indigobird | The Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon. | |
Vidua maryae | Jos Plateau indigobird | Nigeria | |
Vidua camerunensis | Cameroon indigobird | Sierra Leone to east Cameroon, north east Zaire and South Sudan. | |
File:Vidua macroura -Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa -male-8.jpg | Vidua macroura | Pin-tailed whydah | Africa south of the Sahara Desert. |
File:Vidua hypocherina -Ngorongoro, Tanzania -male-8.jpg | Vidua hypocherina | Steel-blue whydah | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
File:Vidua fischeri.jpg | Vidua fischeri | Straw-tailed whydah | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
File:Whydah Shaft-tailed 2007 0107 1231 40AA.jpg | Vidua regia | Shaft-tailed whydah | Southern Africa, from south Angola to south Mozambique |
File:Long-tailed Paradise Whydah (Vidua paradisaea) (17329851342).jpg | Vidua paradisaea | Long-tailed paradise whydah | Eastern Africa, from eastern South Sudan to southern Angola |
Vidua orientalis | Sahel paradise whydah | west Africa | |
File:Whydah 2354851969.jpg | Vidua interjecta | Exclamatory paradise whydah | Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, and Togo. |
Vidua togoensis | Togo paradise whydah | Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo. | |
File:Vidua obtusa male.jpg | Vidua obtusa | Broad-tailed paradise whydah | Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe |
Members of this genus brood-parasitise estrilid finches. Estrildidae is the sister family to Viduidae.