Genus of birds
Coccopygia, is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
Taxonomy.
The genus "Coccopygia" was introduced in 1862 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The name combines the Ancient Greek "kokkos" meaning "scarlet" with "-pugios" meaning "-rumped". The type species was designated as the swee waxbill by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1890. The genus "Coccopygia" is sister to the olivebacks in the genus "Nesocharis".
Species.
The genus contains three species:
References.
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