Ploceus
Genus of birds
Ploceus
Bocage's weaver (P. temporalis ) and Bertram's weaver (P. bertrandi ) ♀
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Ploceidae
Genus:
Ploceus Cuvier , 1816
Type species
Loxia philippina [ 1] Linnaeus, 1766
Species
See text
Synonyms [ 2]
Hyphanthurgus Sundevall, 1872
Hyphanturgus Cabanis, 1851
Nelicurvius Bonaparte, 1850
Nelicurvus Pollen, 1863
Notiospiza Oberholser, 1905
Othyphantes Shelley, 1896
Pachyphantes Shelley, 1896
Phormoplectes Reichenow, 1903
Ploceus victoriae Ash, 1986
Ploceys Billberg, 1828
Ploceëlla Oates, 1874
Plocion Merrem, 1826
Plocus Lafresnaye, 1835
Sharpia Barboza de Bocage, 1878
Simplectes Lesson, 1844
Sitagra Reichenbach, 1850
Sitagroides Roberts, 1947
Sycobrotus Cabanis, 1851
Symplectes Swainson, 1837
Textor Temminck, 1827
Thomasophantes Sclater, 1925
Ploceus is a genus of birds in the weaver family , Ploceidae. They are native to the Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms .
Taxonomy and systematics
Phylogeny
The genus Ploceus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816.[ 3] The type species was subsequently designated as the baya weaver .[ 4] The genus name is from Ancient Greek πλοκευς plokeus meaning "weaver", and is derived from the Greek word πλεκω plekō "to entwine".[ 5]
Based on recent DNA-analysis , the genus Ploceus is almost certainly polyphyletic . If all species currently included in the genus would remain and the genus would be made monophyletic, it would have to encompass the entire subfamily Ploceinae. The Ploceinae can be divided into two groups. In the first group, the widowbirds and bishops (genus Euplectes ) are sister to a clade in which the genera Foudia and Quelea are closest relatives and which further includes the Asiatic species of Ploceus , i.e. P. manyar , P. philippinus , P. benghalensis , P. megarhynchus , (and P. hypoxanthus , although untested). Since Georges Cuvier picked P. philippinus as the type species , these five species would logically remain assigned to the genus Ploceus .
Basic to the second group is a clade consisting of both species so far included in Ploceus that live on Madagascar, P. nelicourvi and P. sakalava , and these are morphologically very distinct from the remaining species. These two species could in future be assigned to the genus Nelicurvius that was erected by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850, but which was merged with Ploceus later on. This second group further contains the genera Malimbus and Anaplectes , and all remaining Ploceus species. As Malimbus is the earlier name, erected by Vieillot et al. in 1805, the remaining species of Ploceus , as well as Anaplectes rubiceps , could in future be assigned to Malimbus .[ 6] These changes are largely corroborated by morphological revisions.[ 7] [ 8] Provided that the other genera that have not been proposed to be merged into an extended "Malimbus " are monophyletic, the following (incomplete) tree expresses current insights.
subfamily Ploceinae
"reinstated Nelicurvius "
"extended Malimbus "
Species list
Speke's weaver (Ploceus spekei , below) and village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus subsp. nigriceps )
The genus contains 67 species.[ 9]
Image
Common name
Scientific name
Distribution
Baglafecht weaver
Ploceus baglafecht
highlands of equatorial Africa
Bannerman's weaver
Ploceus bannermani
Western High Plateau
Bates's weaver
Ploceus batesi
Cameroon.
Black-chinned weaver
Ploceus nigrimentus
Bailundu Highlands of western Angola, on the Batéké Plateau in Republic of the Congo, and in eastern Gabon.
Bertram's weaver
Ploceus bertrandi
Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Slender-billed weaver
Ploceus pelzelni
equatorial Africa
Loango weaver
Ploceus subpersonatus
maritime Central Africa
Little weaver
Ploceus luteolus
western Sudan (region) and East Africa
Spectacled weaver
Ploceus ocularis
Sub-Saharan Africa (except west, south, Horn of Africa and Madagascar)
Black-necked weaver
Ploceus nigricollis
equatorial Africa
Olive-naped weaver
Ploceus brachypterus
West Africa
Strange weaver
Ploceus alienus
Albertine Rift montane forests.
Black-billed weaver
Ploceus melanogaster
central Africa.
Cape weaver
Ploceus capensis
southern Africa.
Bocage's weaver
Ploceus temporalis
Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northwestern Zambia.
Eastern golden weaver
Ploceus subaureus
highlands of eastern and south-eastern Africa.
Holub's golden weaver
Ploceus xanthops
miombo and adjacent areas
Orange weaver
Ploceus aurantius
African tropical rainforest.
Heuglin's masked weaver
Ploceus heuglini
Senegal, Gambia and Mali to Ivory Coast and east to Uganda and western Kenya.
Golden palm weaver
Ploceus bojeri
eastern Africa.
Taveta weaver
Ploceus castaneiceps
African Savannah in Kenya and Tanzania.
Príncipe weaver
Ploceus princeps
São Tomé and Príncipe
Northern brown-throated weaver
Ploceus castanops
Uganda, Rwanda and adjacent northern Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Kenya and northwestern Tanzania.
Southern brown-throated weaver
Ploceus xanthopterus
southern Africa.
Ruvu weaver
Ploceus holoxanthus
Tanzania
Kilombero weaver
Ploceus burnieri
Tanzania
Rüppell's weaver
Ploceus galbula
eastern Africa and southwestern Arabian Peninsula
Northern masked weaver
Ploceus taeniopterus
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan.
Lesser masked weaver
Ploceus intermedius
eastern, south-eastern and southern Africa.
Southern masked weaver
Ploceus velatus
southern Africa.
Katanga masked weaver
Ploceus katangae
south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia.
Lufira masked weaver
Ploceus ruweti
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Tanzanian masked weaver
Ploceus reichardi
south-western Tanzania and north-eastern Zambia.
Vitelline masked weaver
Ploceus vitellinus
western, central and eastern Africa.
Speke's weaver
Ploceus spekei
northern and eastern Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and north-eastern Tanzania
Fox's weaver
Ploceus spekeoides
Uganda.
Village weaver
Ploceus cucullatus
Sub-Saharan Africa; introduced to Hispaniola, Dominica, Mauritius and Réunion.
Giant weaver
Ploceus grandis
São Tomé Island.
Chestnut-and-black weaver
Ploceus castaneofuscus
West Africa
Vieillot's black weaver
Ploceus nigerrimus
Central Africa
Weyns's weaver
Ploceus weynsi
eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Tanzania.
Kilifi weaver
Ploceus golandi
Kenya.
Juba weaver
Ploceus dichrocephalus
Horn of Africa.
Black-headed weaver
Ploceus melanocephalus
West, Central, and East Africa
Golden-backed weaver
Ploceus jacksoni
Burundi, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Cinnamon weaver
Ploceus badius
Sudan and South Sudan
Chestnut weaver
Ploceus rubiginosus
eastern and south-western Africa.
Golden-naped weaver
Ploceus aureonucha
northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Yellow-mantled weaver
Ploceus tricolor
African tropical rainforest.
Maxwell's black weaver
Ploceus albinucha
African tropical rainforest.
Nelicourvi weaver
Ploceus nelicourvi
Madagascar
Sakalava weaver
Ploceus sakalava
Madagascar.
Asian golden weaver
Ploceus hypoxanthus
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Compact weaver
Ploceus superciliosus
sparsely distributed across African tropical rainforest and adjacent areas
Black-breasted weaver
Ploceus benghalensis
South Asia
Streaked weaver
Ploceus manyar
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
Baya weaver
Ploceus philippinus
Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Finn's weaver
Ploceus megarhynchus
India and Nepal
Dark-backed weaver
Ploceus bicolor
Sub-Saharan Africa (except west, south, Horn of Africa and Madagascar)
Preuss's weaver
Ploceus preussi
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Yellow-capped weaver
Ploceus dorsomaculatus
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon.
Olive-headed weaver
Ploceus olivaceiceps
Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.
Usambara weaver
Ploceus nicolli
Tanzania.
Brown-capped weaver
Ploceus insignis
Western High Plateau, Albertine Rift montane forests, Imatong Mountains and Kenya
Bar-winged weaver
Ploceus angolensis
Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia.
São Tomé weaver
Ploceus sanctithomae
São Tomé and Príncipe.
Yellow-legged weaver
Ploceus flavipes
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
References
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^ "Ploceus " . Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 16 February 2022 .
^ Cuvier, Georges (1816). Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Déterville. p. 383.
^ Mayr, Ernst ; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of birds of the world . Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 32.
^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology" . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 5 May 2018 .
^ De Silva, Thilina N.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Bates, John M.; Fernandoa, Sumudu W.; Girard, Matthew G. (2017). "Phylogenetic relationships of weaverbirds (Aves: Ploceidae): A first robust phylogeny based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 109 : 21–32. Bibcode :2017MolPE.109...21D . doi :10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.013 . PMID 28012957 . S2CID 205841906 .
^ Wolters, H.E. (1970). "On the generic classification of the weaver-birds of the Malimbus-Ploceus group" (PDF) . Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society . 23 : 369–391.
^ Del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D. (2010). Handbook of the Birds of the World . Vol. 15. Weavers to New World Warblers. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions.
^ Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela , eds. (December 2023). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers" . IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 February 2024 .
External links
Media related to Ploceus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Ploceus at Wikispecies