Lichmera

Lichmera
Brown honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Lichmera
Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Glyciphila ocularis[1]
Gould, 1838
Species

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Lichmera is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae that are found in Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy

The genus Lichmera was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis. He listed two species in the new genus but did not specify a type species.[2] In 1854 the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte designate the type as Glyciphila ocularis Gould, which is now treated as a subspecies of the brown honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta ocularis).[3][4] The genus name Lichmera is from Ancient Greek λιχμηρης/likhmērēs meaning "licking with the tongue".[5]

The genus contains nine species:[6]

ImageNameCommon nameDistribution
Lichmera lombokiaScaly-crowned honeyeaterwestern Lesser Sunda Islands (Lombok, Sumbawa, and Flores)
Lichmera argentaurisOlive honeyeaterLusaolate (north of central Seram), Kekek (east of Obi Islands), Damar Island (south of Halmahera; north, central Moluccas) and islets of Raja Ampat Islands (northwest of New Guinea)
Lichmera indistinctaBrown honeyeaterBali, Lesser Sunda Islands, Aru Islands, central south New Guinea and west, north, central, east Australia
Lichmera incanaGrey-eared honeyeatercentral, south Vanuatu and New Caledonia including Loyalty Islands
Lichmera alboauricularisSilver-eared honeyeatercentral north and southeast New Guinea
Lichmera squamataScaly-breasted honeyeaterWetar and Leti to Babar Islands (east Lesser Sunda Islands) and Tayandu, Kai, and Tanimbar Islands (south Moluccas)
Lichmera deningeriBuru honeyeatermontane Buru (central west Moluccas)
Lichmera monticolaSeram honeyeatermontane west, central Seram (central east Moluccas)
Lichmera flavicansFlame-eared honeyeaterTimor (east Lesser Sunda Islands)
Lichmera notabilisBlack-necklaced honeyeaterWetar (east Lesser Sunda Islands)

References

  1. ↑ "Melaphagidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 118. For the publication date of volume 1 see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
  3. ↑ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 38: 1–11, 53–67, 258–266, 378–389, 533–541, 650–665 [263].
  4. ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 345.
  5. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Lichmera". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
  6. ↑ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 11 November 2025.


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