Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates cathpharius) [XC267111]
by Norbu from Longcanggou, Yingjing, Sichuan, China (call)
Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates cathpharius) [XC877688]
by id from Mae Ai (near Malika), Mae Ai District, Chiang Mai, Thailand (drumming)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Most closely related to Darjeeling Woodpecker (Dendrocopos darjellensis), and probably more distantly to the Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) superspecies.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
cathpharius (Blyth, 1843) - West-central Nepal east to Arunachal Pradesh.
ludlowi (Vaurie, 1959) - South-eastern Tibet (southern Tsangpo Valley).
pyrrhothorax (Hume, 1881) - North-eastern India south of R Brahmaputra (Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram) and western Myanmar (west of R Chindwin).
pernyii (Verreaux, J, 1867) - West-central and south-western China (south-western Gansu, northern and eastern Sichuan, north-western Yunnan). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates pernyii).
innixus Bangs & Peters, JL, 1928 - Central China (southern Shaanxi, Hubei).
tenebrosus Rothschild, 1926 - Northern, central and eastern Myanmar, central and southern Yunnan, north-western Thailand, northern Laos and western Tonkin.