Yungipicus
Yungipicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the (family Picidae) native to Asia. The species in this genus were previously placed in the genus "Dendrocopos". Taxonomy. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the pied woodpeckers published in 2015 found that the genus "Dendrocopos" was polyphyletic. In the subsequent rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, seven species were moved to the resurrected genus "Yungipicus". The genus had been introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. The name combines the Ancient Greek "iunx" meaning "wryneck" which was used by Carl Linnaeus for his genus "Jynx", with the Latin "picus" meaning  woodpecker. The type species was designated by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 as a subspecies of the brown-capped pygmy woodpecker, "Yungipicus nanus hardwickii". The genus is in the tribe Melanerpini, one of five tribes that make up the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus "Yungipicus" is sister to the genus "Picoides". The genus includes seven species: