Dendrocoptes

Dendrocoptes
Middle spotted woodpecker Dendrocoptes medius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordate
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Genus:	Dendrocoptes Cabanis & Heine, 1863
Species
3, see text

3, see text

Dendrocoptes is a genus of woodpeckers in the (family Picidae) native to Eurasia. Species in this genus were previously assigned to Dendrocopos, where some taxonomic authorities still keep the entire group. The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended an alternative arrangement in which the genera Dendrocoptes and Leiopicus are combined into a larger Dendropicos.

The genus contains three species:

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