Tricholaema is a bird genus in the African barbet family Lybiidae. It was formerly included with the New World barbets in the family Capitonidae and sometimes also in the Ramphastidae.
The genus Tricholaema was introduced by the French brothers Jules and Édouard Verreaux in 1855 with the hairy-breasted barbet (Tricholaema hirsuta) as the type species.[1] The generic name combines the Ancient Greek thrix meaning hair and laimos meaning "throat".[2]
The genus contains the following six species:[3]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tricholaema hirsuta | Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda | ||
| Tricholaema diademata | Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. | ||
| Tricholaema frontata | central Angola, the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Malawi, southwest Tanzania, and Zambia | ||
| Tricholaema leucomelas | Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | ||
| Tricholaema lacrymosa | Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. | ||
| Tricholaema melanocephala | Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. | ||