page_title: White-bellied woodpecker
section_title: Subspecies
hierarchical_section_title: White-bellied woodpecker / Subspecies
caption_attribution_description: White bellied Woodpecker, female. Location Philippines, which island unknown.
context_page_description: The white-bellied woodpecker or great black woodpecker is found in evergreen forests of tropical Asia, including the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It has 14 subspecies, part of a complex including the Andaman woodpecker. Many island forms are endangered, some are extinct. Populations differ in the distribution and extent of white. They are among the largest of the Asiatic woodpeckers and nest in large dead trees, often beside rivers. Their drums and calls are louder than those of the smaller woodpeckers.
context_section_description: Fourteen subspecies have been described: 
  D. j. javensis (Horsfield, 1821) (southern Thailand to Borneo)
  D. j. philippinensis (Steere, 1890) (the Philippines; more often subsumed into the nominate subspecies)
  D. j. cebuensis Kennedy, 1987 (Cebu Island)
  D. j. confusus (Stresemann, 1913) (Luzon; includes esthloterus (Parkes, 1971))
  D. j. feddeni (Blyth, 1863) (Thailand, Laos and Burma)
  D. j. forresti Rothschild, 1922  (northern Myanmar and Sichuan, China)
  D. j. hargitti (Sharpe, 1884) (Palawan)
  D. j. hodgsonii (Jerdon, 1840) (mainly the Western Ghats of India, but also known from central India and the Eastern Ghats)
  D. j. mindorensis (Steere, 1890) (Mindoro)
  D. j. multilunatus (McGregor, 1907) (Basilan, Dinagat, Mindanao)
  D. j. parvus (Richmond, 1902) (Simeulue Island)
  D. j. pectoralis (Tweeddale, 1878) (Samar, Bohol and other islands)
  D. j. richardsi (Tristram, 1879) (Tristram's woodpecker; found only in North Korea, extinct in South Korea and Tsushima, Japan)
  D. j. suluensis (W. Blasius, 1890) (Sulu)
  The Andaman woodpecker (Dryocopus hodgei) was treated as a subspecies in the past. The species has in the past been placed in the genus Thriponax and Macropicus.
caption: Male, the Philippines
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