Hemignathini facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Hemignathini |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Fringillidae |
| Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
| Tribe: | Hemignathini |
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Hemignathini is a formerly-recognized tribe of Hawaiian honeycreepers containing the ʻalauahios, the extinct ʻakialoas, ʻamakihis, and extinct nukupuʻus.
Genera and species
- Genus Aidemedia - straight thin bills, insectivorous
- Oʻahu icterid-like gaper (Aidemedia chascax) - prehistoric
- Sickle-billed gaper (Aidemedia zanclops) - prehistoric
- Maui Nui icterid-like gaper (Aidemedia lutetiae) - prehistoric
- Genus Akialoa - pointed or long and down-curved bills, insectivorous or nectarivorous
- Lesser ʻakialoa (Akialoa obscura) - extinct (1940)
- Oʻahu ʻakialoa (Akialoa ellisiana) - extinct (1940)
- Maui Nui ʻakialoa (Akialoa lanaiensis) - extinct (1892)
- Kauaʻi ʻakialoa (Akialoa stejnegeri) - extinct (1969)
- Hoopoe-billed ʻakialoa (Akialoa upupirostris) - prehistoric
- Genus Chlorodrepanis - pointed bills, insectivorous and nectarivorous
- Hawaiʻi ʻamakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens)
- Oʻahu ʻamakihi (Chlorodrepanis flava)
- Kauaʻi ʻamakihi (Chlorodrepanis stejnegeri)
- Genus Hemignathus - pointed or long and down-curved bills, insectivorous
- Giant nukupuʻu (Hemignathus vorpalis) - prehistoric
- Maui nukupuʻu (Hemignathus affinis) extinct (1995–1998)
- Oahu nukupuʻu (Hemignathus lucidus) extinct (1837)
- Kauai nukupuʻu (Hemignathus hanapepe) extinct (1998)
- ʻAkiapolaʻau (Hemignathus wilsoni)
- Genus Loxops - small pointed bills with the tips offset a little horizontally, insectivores
- Hawaiʻi creeper (Loxops mana)
- ʻAkekeʻe (Loxops caeruleirostris)
- Hawaiʻi ʻakepa (Loxops coccineus)
- Maui ʻakepa (Loxops ochraceus) - extinct (1988)
- Oʻahu ʻakepa (Loxops wolstenholmei) - extinct (1990s)
- Genus Magumma - small pointed bills, insectivorous and nectarivorous
- ʻAnianiau (Magumma parva)
- Genus Oreomystis - short pointed bills, insectivorous
- ʻAkikiki (Oreomystis bairdi)
- Genus Paroreomyza - short pointed bills, insectivorous
- Genus Vangulifer - flat rounded bills, possibly caught flying insects
- Strange-billed finch (Vangulifer mirandus) - prehistoric
- Thin-billed finch (Vangulifer neophasis) - prehistoric
- Genus Viridonia
- Greater ʻamakihi (Viridonia sagittirostris) - extinct (1901)
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