What is "chloropicus"

Chloropicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae that are native to Africa. Species in this genus were previously assigned to Dendrocopos.

The name of the genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845. The word Chloropicus is from the Greek khlōros meaning green and pikos meaning woodpecker.

The genus contains the three species:

• Bearded woodpecker, Chloropicus namaquus
• Yellow-crested woodpecker, Chloropicus xantholophus
• Fire-bellied woodpecker, Chloropicus pyrrhogaster