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Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
Dicaeum cruentatum · Family Dicaeidae
Dicaeum cruentatum
Family Dicaeidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicaeidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 112,862
- Countries and territories with records
- 17
About this species
This species has 112,862 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Thailand (43.4%), Singapore (16.5%), India (10.5%), Cambodia (8%) and Malaysia (7.8%); together they account for 86.2% of the total. In Thailand, this species accounts for 0.74% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dicaeum cruentatum combines the genus name Dicaeum with the species epithet cruentatum. The Warbla app catalog lists 37 species of the genus Dicaeum; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dicaeum hirundinaceum, Dicaeum erythrorhynchos and Dicaeum concolor.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 42 species of the family Dicaeidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dicaeum hirundinaceum. Its record count is 3.8 times the family average (29,634). The family Dicaeidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.