Harpactes

This article is about genus of birds. For the spider genus, see Harpactea.

Harpactes is a genus of birds in the family Trogonidae found in forests in South and Southeast Asia, extending into southernmost China. They are strongly sexually dimorphic, with females generally being duller than males. Their back is brownish, the tail is partially white (best visible from below), and males of most species have red underparts. They feed on arthropods, small lizards and fruit.

Harpactes
Malabar trogon, Harpactes fasciatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Trogoniformes
Family:	Trogonidae
Genus:	Harpactes Swainson, 1833
Type species
Trogon malabaricus[1] Gould, 1834
Synonyms
Duvaucelius

Two species, cinnamon-rumped and scarlet-rumped trogons, were previously classified in a separate genus, Duvaucelius, and a 2010 study found that these two were closely related and formed a separate clade from all of the other Harpactes trogons (except orange-breasted trogon, which forms a third group), but recommended that all three groups should be treated as congeneric.^[2] This same study also found that the genus Apalharpactes, containing two species sometimes included in Harpactes, is actually distantly related and thus a valid genus.^[2]

Species

Genus Harpactes – Swainson, 1833 – ten species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Malabar trogon Male Female	Harpactes fasciatus (Pennant, 1769)	Sri Lanka and peninsular India	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Red-naped trogon Male	Harpactes kasumba (Raffles, 1822)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Diard's trogon Male	Harpactes diardii (Temminck, 1832)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Philippine trogon Male Female	Harpactes ardens (Temminck, 1826) Five subspecies H. a. ardens H. a. linae H. a.. minor H. a. luzoniensis H. a. herberti	Philippines.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Whitehead's trogon Male	Harpactes whiteheadi (Sharpe, 1888)	Borneo	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Cinnamon-rumped trogon Male	Harpactes orrhophaeus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863)	Thailand and Malaysia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Scarlet-rumped trogon Male	Harpactes duvaucelii (Temminck, 1824)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Red-headed trogon Male Female	Harpactes erythrocephalus (Gould, 1834)	North-Eastern India, Bangladesh and Central Nepal to Southern China, Vietnam, Cambodia, through the Malay Peninsula all the way to areas of Sumatra	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Orange-breasted trogon Male Female	Harpactes oreskios (Temminck, 1823) Five subspecies H. o. oreskios H. o. stellae H. o. uniformis H. o. nias H. o. dulitensis	Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Ward's trogon Male Female	Harpactes wardi (Kinnear, 1927)	Bhutan, India, Tibet, Myanmar and northern Vietnam	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT