Purple-naped spiderhunter explained

The purple-naped spiderhunter or purple-naped sunbird (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is the only species in the genus Kurochkinegramma. It is found in Southeast Asia from Myanmar to Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

A study published in 2011 appeared to show that the purple-naped spiderhunter was phylogenetically nested within the genus Arachnothera.^[1] A subsequent 2017 study, conducted by some of the same authors and using additional sequence data, found that the purple-naped spiderhunter occupied a basal position to Arachnothera.^[2] It was formerly placed in the genus Hypogramma until it was realised that the name was preoccupied within Lepidoptera.^{[3] [4] [5]}

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Notes and References

1. Moyle . R.G. . Taylor . S.S. . Oliveros . C.H. . Lim . H.C. . Haines . C.L. . Rahman . M.A. . Sheldon . F.H. . 2011 . Diversification of an endemic Southeast Asian genus: phylogenetic relationships of the spiderhunters (Nectariniidae: Arachnothera) . The Auk . 128 . 4 . 777–788 . 10.1525/auk.2011.11019 . free . 1808/13332 . free .
2. Campillo . L.C. . Oliveros . C.H. . Sheldon . F.H. . Moyle . R.G. . 2017 . Genomic data resolve gene tree discordance in spiderhunters (Nectariniidae, Arachnothera) . Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution . 120 . 151–157 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.011 . 29242166 . free .
3. Gregory . S.M.S. . Dickinson . E.C. . 2012 . An assessment of three little-noticed papers on avian nomenclature by G. N. Kashin during 1978-1982 . Zootaxa . 3340 . 44–58 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3340.1.3 .
4. Book: Dickinson . E.C. . Edward C. Dickinson . Christidis . L. . Leslie Christidis . 2014 . The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World . 2: Passerines . 4th . Eastbourne, UK . Aves Press . 978-0-9568611-2-2 . 268 .
5. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds . World Bird List Version 9.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 30 January 2019 .