Glossy-backed drongo

The glossy-backed drongo (Dicrurus divaricatus) is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae. It occurs in sub-Saharan Africa from south Mauritania and Senegambia across to Somalia and northern Kenya.

Glossy-backed drongo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicruridae
Genus: Dicrurus
Species:
D. divaricatus
Binomial name
Dicrurus divaricatus
Synonyms

Muscicapa divaricata
Dicrurus adsimilis divaricatus

The glossy-backed drongo was described by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 from a specimen obtained in Senegambia. He coined the binomial name Muscicapa divaricata.[1] It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) but it is now considered as a separate species based on the phylogenetic relationships determined in a molecular study published in 2018.[2][3]

There are two subspecies:[3]

  • D. d. divaricatus (Lichtenstein, MHK, 1823) – Senegambia and south Mauritania to southwest Chad
  • D. d. lugubris (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828) – south Chad to Eritrea, Ethiopia, north Kenya, and north Somalia

References
  1. Lichtenstein, Hinrich (1823). Verzeichniss der Doubletten des Zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin. Berlin: T. Trautwein. p. 52.
  2. Fuchs, J.; De Swardt, D.H.; Oatley, G.; Fjeldså, J.; Bowie, R.C.K. (2018). "Habitat-driven diversification, hybridization and cryptic diversity in the Fork-tailed Drongo (Passeriformes: Dicruridae: Dicrurus adsimilis)". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (3): 266–284. doi:10.1111/zsc.12274.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Orioles, drongos, fantails". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 February 2019.


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