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 | |
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| Malabar trogon, Harpactes fasciatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Trogoniformes |
| Family: | Trogonidae |
| Genus: | Harpactes Swainson, 1833 |
| Type species | |
| Trogon malabaricus[1] Gould, 1834
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| Synonyms | |
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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 edit
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Malabar trogon | Harpactes fasciatus | Sri Lanka and peninsular India |
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Red-naped trogon | Harpactes kasumba | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand |
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Diard's trogon | Harpactes diardii | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand |
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Philippine trogon | Harpactes ardens | Philippines. |
| Whitehead's trogon | Harpactes whiteheadi | Borneo | |
| Cinnamon-rumped trogon | Harpactes orrhophaeus | Thailand and Malaysia | |
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Scarlet-rumped trogon | Harpactes duvaucelii | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand |
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Red-headed trogon | Harpactes erythrocephalus | North-Eastern India, Bangladesh and Central Nepal to Southern China, Vietnam, Cambodia, through the Malay Peninsula all the way to areas of Sumatra |
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Orange-breasted trogon | Harpactes oreskios | Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam |
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Ward's trogon | Harpactes wardi | Bhutan, India, Tibet, Myanmar and northern Vietnam |
References edit
- Allen, R. (2001). Genus Harpactes. pp. 106–111 in: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, & J. Sargatal. eds. (2001). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Mousebirds to Hornbills. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-30-X
- ^ "Trogonidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ a b Hosner, Peter A.; Sheldon, Frederick H.; Lim, Haw Chuan; Moyle, Robert G. (2010). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the Asian trogons (Aves: Trogoniformes) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57 (3): 1219–1225. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.09.008. PMID 20858547.