Coccopygia

Coccopygia, is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.

Coccopygia
Swee waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Estrildidae
Subfamily:	Estrildidae
Genus:	Coccopygia Reichenbach, 1862
Type species
Fringilla melanotis swee waxbill Temminck, 1823
Species
Coccopygia quartinia Coccopygia melanotis Coccopygia bocagei

Taxonomy

The genus Coccopygia was introduced in 1862 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.^[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek kokkos meaning "scarlet" with -pugios meaning "-rumped".^[2] The type species was designated as the swee waxbill by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1890.^[3][4] The genus Coccopygia is sister to the olivebacks in the genus Nesocharis.^[5]

Species

The genus contains three species:^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Coccopygia quartinia	Yellow-bellied waxbill	East Africa
	Coccopygia melanotis	Swee waxbill	Southern Africa
	Coccopygia bocagei	Angola waxbill	Angola

References

1. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1862). 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). Dresden and Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. 23.
2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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. 305.
4. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1968). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 336.
5. Olsson, Urban; Alström, Per (2020). "A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 146: 106757. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106757. PMID 32028027.
6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 July 2021.