Editing Picinae (section)

===Genera===
{{Cladogram
|caption=Relationships between the genera based on a phylogenetic study by Sabir Shakya and colleagues published in 2017.<ref name=shakya>{{Cite journal | last1=Shakya | first1=S.B. | last2=Fuchs | first2=J. | last3=Pons | first3=J.-M. | last4=Sheldon | first4=F.H. | date=2017 | title=Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=116 | pages=182–191 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005 | pmid=28890006 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319596154 | doi-access=free | bibcode=2017MolPE.116..182S }}</ref>
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|cladogram={{Clade| style=font-size:80%;line-height:75%;width:320px;
|label1=Picinae
|1={{clade
   |1={{clade
      |label1=Hemicircini
      |1=''[[Hemicircus]]''
      |label2=Nesoctitini
      |2=''[[Nesoctites]]''
      }}
   |2={{clade
      |label1=Picini
      |1={{clade
         |1={{clade
            |1={{clade
               |1=''[[Dinopium]]''
               |2=''[[Gecinulus]]''
               }}
            |2={{clade
               |1=''[[Meiglyptes]]''
               |2=''[[Micropternus]]''
               }}
            }}
         |2={{clade
            |1={{clade
               |1={{clade
                  |1=''[[Dryocopus]]''
                  |2=''[[Mulleripicus]]''
                  }}
               |2={{clade
                  |1=''[[Celeus (bird)|Celeus]]''
                  |2={{clade
                     |1=''[[Colaptes]]''
                     |2=''[[Piculus]]''
                     }}
                  }}
               }}
            |2={{clade
               |1=''[[Picus (genus)|Picus]]''
               |2={{clade
                  |1=''[[Chrysophlegma]]''
                  |2={{clade
                     |1=''[[Pardipicus]]''
                     |2={{clade
                        |1=''[[Campethera]]''
                        |2=''[[Geocolaptes]]''
                        }}
                     }}
                  }}
               }}
            }}
         }}
      |2={{clade
         |label1=Campephilini
         |1={{clade
            |1=''[[Campephilus]]''
            |2={{clade
               |1=''[[Blythipicus]]''
               |2={{clade
                  |1=''[[Chrysocolaptes]]''
                  |2=''[[Reinwardtipicus]]''
                  }}
               }}
            }}
         |label2=Melanerpini
         |2={{clade
            |1={{clade
               |1=''[[Melanerpes]]''
               |2=''[[Sphyrapicus]]''
               }}
            |2={{clade
               |1={{clade
                  |1=''[[Picoides]]''
                  |2=''[[Yungipicus]]''
                  }}
               |2={{clade
                  |1={{clade
                     |1={{clade
                        |1=''[[Chloropicus]]''
                        |2=''[[Dendropicos]]''
                        }}
                     |2={{clade
                        |1=''[[Dendrocoptes]]''
                        |2=''[[Leiopicus]]''
                        }}
                     }}
                  |2={{clade
                     |1=''[[Dendrocopos]]''
                     |2={{clade
                        |1=''[[Dryobates]]''
                        |2={{clade
                           |1=''[[Leuconotopicus]]''
                           |2=''[[Veniliornis]]''
                           }}
                        }}
                     }}
                  }}
               }}
            }}
         }}
      }}
   }}
}}
}}
The world bird list maintained by [[Frank Gill (ornithologist)|Frank Gill]], [[Pamela Rasmussen]] and David Donsker on behalf of the [[International Ornithologists' Union]] recognises 208 species of true woodpecker which are split up into 33 genera.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Woodpeckers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/woodpeckers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=11 March 2025 }}</ref> The division into tribes is based on the 2017 study by Sabir Shakya and colleagues.<ref name=shakya/>

'''Tribe Nesoctitini'''
*''[[Nesoctites]]'' – monotypic: [[Antillean piculet]] (Caribbean)
'''Tribe Hemicircini'''
*''[[Hemicircus]]'' – 2 species ([[Indomalaya]])
'''Tribe Picini'''
*''[[Micropternus]]'' – monotypic: [[rufous woodpecker]] (Indomalaya)
*''[[Meiglyptes]]'' – 4 species (Indomalaya)
*''[[Gecinulus]]'' – 3 species (Indomalaya)
*''[[Dinopium]]'' – 5 species, flamebacks (Indomalaya)
*''[[Picus (genus)|Picus]]'' – 14 species (Indomalaya and Palearctic)
*''[[Chrysophlegma]]'' – 3 species (Indomalaya)
*''[[Pardipicus]]'' – 2 species (Africa)
*''[[Geocolaptes]]'' – monotypic: [[ground woodpecker]] (Africa)
*''[[Campethera]]'' – 11 species (Africa)
*''[[Mulleripicus]]'' – 4 species (Indomalaya)
*''[[Dryocopus]]'' – 6 species (Eurasia and Americas)
*''[[Celeus (bird)|Celeus]]'' – 12 species ([[Neotropic]])
*''[[Piculus]]'' – 7 species (Neotropic)
*''[[Colaptes]]'' – 14 species (Americas)
'''Tribe Campephilini'''
*''[[Campephilus]]'' – 12 species (Americas)
*''[[Blythipicus]]'' – 2 species (Indomalaya)
*''[[Reinwardtipicus]]'' – monotypic: [[orange-backed woodpecker]] (Indomalaya)
*''[[Chrysocolaptes]]'' – 9 species, flamebacks (Indomalaya)
'''Tribe Melanerpini''' (pied woodpeckers)
*''[[Sphyrapicus]]'' – 4 species, sapsuckers (Americas)
*''[[Melanerpes]]'' – 23 species (Americas)
*''[[Picoides]]'' – 3 species ([[Holarctic]])
*''[[Yungipicus]]'' – 7 species (Eurasia)
*''[[Leiopicus]]'' – monotypic: [[yellow-crowned woodpecker]] (Indomalaya)
*''[[Dendrocoptes]]'' – 3 species (Eurasia)
*''[[Chloropicus]]'' – 3 species (Africa)
*''[[Dendropicos]]'' – 12 species (Africa)
*''[[Dendrocopos]]'' – 12 species (Eurasia)
*''[[Dryobates]]'' – 6 species (Americas and Eurasia){{efn|In the ''eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World'' which is maintained by the [[Cornell Lab of Ornithology]], the genus ''Dryobates'' is expanded to include the species in ''Leuconotopicus'' and ''Veniliornis''.<ref>{{ cite web | last1=Clements | first1=J.F. | last2=Schulenberg | first2=T.S. | last3=Iliff | first3=M.J. | last4=Billerman | first4=S.M. | last5=Fredericks | first5=T.A. | last6=Sullivan | first6=B.L. | last7=Wood | first7=C.L. | year=2019 | title=The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019 | url=http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ | access-date=18 May 2020 }}</ref>}}
*''[[Leuconotopicus]]'' – 6 species (Americas)
*''[[Veniliornis]]'' – 14 species (Neotropic)
*''[[Xiphidiopicus]]'' – monotypic: [[Cuban green woodpecker]] (Caribbean){{efn|The Cuban green woodpecker (''Xiphidiopicus percussus'') was not sampled by Shakya and colleagues in their 2017 study.<ref name=shakya/> An earlier study in which DNA sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome-''b'' were compared indicated that the Cuban woodpecker was most closely related to species in the genus ''Melanerpes''.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Overton | first1=Lowell C. | last2=Rhoads | first2=Douglas D. | date=2006 | title=Molecular phylogenetic relationships of ''Xiphidiopicus percussus'', ''Melanerpes'', and ''Sphyrapicus'' (Aves: Picidae) based on cytochrome ''b'' sequence | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=41 | issue=2 | pages=288–294 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.014| pmid=16814571 | bibcode=2006MolPE..41..288O }}</ref>}}