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The flowerpeckers, once included in an enlarged sunbird family Nectariniidae, are a family, Dicaeidae, of passerine birds.

Dicaeidae, Dicaeum: Greek dikaion supposedly an Indian bird mentioned by Aelianus.

Dicaeum is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia.

The name Dicaeum is from the Ancient Greek dikaion. Cuvier claimed that this was a word for a very small Indian bird.

1/ Plain flowerpecker (Dicaeum minullum)
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2/ Fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus)
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3/ Scarlet-Backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum)
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4/ Orange-bellied flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma) 
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5/ Nilgiri flowerpecker (Dicaeum concolor)
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Pachyglossa is one of the three genera of flowerpeckers that make up the family Dicaeidae. 
These bird species are found in montane areas of South and Southeast Asia.
The genus Pachyglossa was resurrected to solve the paraphyly because the genus Pachyglossa was paraphyletic with respect to the genus Prionochilus.

1/ Thick-billed flowerpecker (Pachyglossa agilis) 
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2/ Yellow-vented flowerpecker (Pachyglossa chrysorrhea)
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3/ Yellow-bellied flowerpecker (Pachyglossa melanozantha)
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The genus name Pachyglossa combines the Ancient Greek παχυς/pakhus meaning "thick" with γλωσσα/glōssa meaning "tongue", "mouth" (or "bill").

Prionochilus is one of two genera flowerpecker that make up the family Dicaeidae.

1/ Scarlet-breasted flowerpecker (Prionochilus thoracicus)
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Prionochilus Greek prion saw; kheilos lip.