and William Moore divided the main woodpecker genera into three tribes: Megapicini, Malarpicini and Dendropicini. These names were rapidly accepted by other ornithologists but in 2013 Edward Dickinson and Leslie Christidis in the fourth edition of the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World rejected these new names on the grounds that the earlier names had precedence. Webb and Moore's Malarpicini, Megapicini and Dendropicini were replaced by Pici, Campephilini and Melanerpini. Dickinson and Christidis also introduced Nesoctitini for the Antillean piculets and Hemicircini for the two species in Hemicircus giving a total of five tribes. Genera The world bird list maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union recognises 208 species of true woodpecker which are split up into 33 genera. The division into tribes is based on the 2017 study by Sabir Shakya and colleagues. Tribe Nesoctitini Nesoctites – monotypic: Antillean piculet (Caribbean) Tribe Hemicircini Hemicircus – 2 species (Indomalaya) Tribe Picini Micropternus – monotypic: rufous woodpecker (Indomalaya) Meiglyptes – 3 species (Indomalaya) Gecinulus – 3 species (Indomalaya) Dinopium – 5 species, flamebacks (Indomalaya) Picus – 14 species (Indomalaya and Palearctic) Chrysophlegma – 3 species (Indomalaya) Pardipicus – 2 species (Africa) Geocolaptes – monotypic: ground woodpecker (Africa) Campethera – 11 species (Africa) Mulleripicus – 4 species (Indomalaya) Dryocopus – 6 species (Eurasia and Americas) Celeus – 13 species (Neotropic) Piculus – 7 species (Neotropic) Colaptes – 14 species (Americas) Tribe Campephilini Campephilus – 11 species (Americas) Blythipicus – 2 species (Indomalaya) Reinwardtipicus – monotypic: orange-backed woodpecker (Indomalaya) Chrysocolaptes – 9 species, flamebacks (Indomalaya) Tribe Melanerpini Sphyrapicus – 4 species, sapsuckers (Americas) Melanerpes – 24 species (Americas) Picoides – 3 species (Holarctic) Yungipicus – 7 species (Eurasia) Leiopicus – monotypic: yellow-crowned woodpecker (Indomalaya) Dendrocoptes – 3 species (Eurasia) Chloropicus – 3 species (Africa) Dendropicos – 12 species (Africa) Dendrocopos – 12 species (Eurasia) Dryobates – 5 species (Americas and Eurasia) Leuconotopicus – 6 species (Americas) Veniliornis – 14 species (Neotropic) Xiphidiopicus – monotypic: Cuban green woodpecker (Caribbean) Unassigned fossil forms Genus Palaeonerpes (Ogallala Early Pliocene of Hitchcock County, USA) - possibly dendropicine Genus Pliopicus (Early Pliocene of Kansas, USA) - possibly dendropicine cf. Colaptes DMNH 1262 (Early Pliocene of Ainsworth, USA) - possibly malarpicine Notes References External links Woodpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection Anatomy and Evolution of the Woodpecker's Tongue Picidae Bird subfamilies Taxa named by