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{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image             = Buff-rumped Woodpecker (14100212853).jpg
| image_caption     = [[Buff-rumped woodpecker]] (''Meiglyptes grammithorax'')
| taxon             = Meiglyptes
| authority         = [[William John Swainson|Swainson]], 1837
| type_species      = ''[[Zebra woodpecker|Picus poicilophus]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=96 |title= Picidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-26}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = Temminck, 1823
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision       = 
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'''''Meiglyptes''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Southeast Asia]]n birds in the woodpecker family [[Picidae]].

The genus was introduced by the English naturalist [[William John Swainson]] in 1837 with the [[white-rumped woodpecker]] (''Meiglyptes tristis'') as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Swainson | first=William John | author-link=William John Swainson | year=1837 | title=On the Natural History and Classification of Birds | volume=2 | place=London  | publisher=John Taylor | page=309 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41945087 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1948 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=6 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=147 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477580 }}</ref> The name combines the [[Ancient Greek]] ''meiōn'' meaning "smaller" or "lesser" with ''gluptēs'' meaning "carver".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997 | url-access=limited | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997/page/n246 246] }}</ref> The genus belongs to the tribe Picini within the woodpecker [[subfamily]] [[Picinae]]. The genus is [[sister taxon|sister]] to the [[rufous woodpecker]] in its own [[monotypic]] genus ''[[Micropternus]]''.<ref name=shakya>{{ cite journal | last1=Shakya | first1=S.B. | last2=Fuchs | first2=J. | last3=Pons | first3=J.M. | last4=Sheldon | first4=F.H. | year=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>

The genus contains 4 species.<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 Rasmussen | year=2020 | title=Woodpeckers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/woodpeckers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=17 May 2020 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common Name !! Distribution
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|[[File:Buff-rumped Woodpecker (14100212853).jpg|120px]] ||''Meiglyptes grammithorax''|| [[Buff-rumped woodpecker]]  ||southern Myanmar and Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra and Borneo
|-
|[[File:White-rumped Woodpecker 0A2A0957.jpg|120px]] ||''Meiglyptes tristis''|| [[Zebra woodpecker]]  ||	Java
|-
|[[File:Meiglyptes jugularis (Black-and-buff Woodpecker).jpg|120px]] ||''Meiglyptes jugularis''|| [[Black-and-buff woodpecker]] || Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
|-
|[[File:Buff-necked Woodpecker - Krung Ching - Thailand S4E3663 (14256613532).jpg|120px]] ||''Meiglyptes tukki''|| [[Buff-necked woodpecker]] || Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand
|-
|}

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