Anaplectes

Anaplectes
Male red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Anaplectes
Reichenbach, 1863
Type species
Ploceus melanotis = Ploceus leuconotus

Anaplectes is a genus of African birds in the weaver family Ploceidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Anaplectes was introduced in 1863 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The type species was subsequently designated by Richard Bowdler Sharpe as Ploceus leuconotus Müller, JW 1851, now a subspecies of the red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps).

The genus contains the following two species:

Genus Anaplectes – Reichenbach, 1863 – 2 species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Red-headed weaver

 Anaplectes rubriceps
(Sundevall, 1850)

Two subspecies
  • A. r. leuconotos (J. W. von Müller, 1851): West Africa to northern Malawi
  • A. r. rubriceps (Sundevall, 1850): Southern Africa
Senegambia to Ethiopia and northwest Somalia, south to Mozambique, northern and northeast Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, northeast South Africa, eastern Eswatini and northeast KwaZulu-Natal Size:

Habitat: Savanna biomes, bushland and other wooded areas

Diet: Insects on leaves and branches, alone or in pairs; hangs upside-down, prying open clusters of dead leaves and probing bark; catches aerial insects (alate termites, moths) and pecks at spider nests; also takes acacia seeds, Premna fruit, mistletoe berries and nectar		  LC 

Stable
Red weaver Anaplectes jubaensis
Van Someren, 1920		 Southern Somalia and northeastern Kenya Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 

References

  1. ↑ "Ploceidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1863). Die Singvögel als Fortsetzung de vollständigsten Naturgeschichte und zugleich als Central-Atlas für zoologische Gärten und für Thierfreunde. Ein durch zahlreiche illuminirte Abbildungen illustrirtes Handbuch zur richtigten Bestimmung und Pflege der Thiere aller Classen (in German). Vol. 4. Dresden and Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. 86.
  3. ↑ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1890). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Sturnformes. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 13. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 411.
  4. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 57.
  5. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 February 2023.