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Summary

The golden-olive woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus) is a species of bird in the subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found from Mexico south and east through Panama, in every mainland South American country except Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Taxonomy

The golden-olive woodpecker was formally described in 1820 as Picus rubiginosis by the English zoologist William Swainson. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "rusty". Swainson specified the type locality as the "Spanish Main". In 1918 the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr restricted the location to Caracas, Venezuela. The golden-olive woodpecker is now one of 14 species placed in the genus Colaptes that was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors.

Nineteen subspecies are recognised:

C. r. yucatanensis (Cabot, S Jr, 1844) – southern Mexico (Oaxaca) to western Panama C. r. alleni (Bangs, O, 1902) – Santa Marta Mountains (northeastern Colombia) C. r. buenavistae (Chapman, FM, 1915) – Andean slopes of eastern Colombia and eastern Ecuador C. r. meridensis (Ridgway, R, 1911) – northwestern Venezuela C. r. rubiginosus (Swainson, WJ, 1820) – mountains of north-central and northeastern Venezuela C. r. deltanus (Aveledo H, R & Ginés, H, 1953) – northeastern Venezuela (Delta Amacuro) C. r. paraquensis (Phelps, WH Sr & Phelps, WH Jr, 1948) – mountains of south-central Venezuela C. r. guianae (Hellmayr, CE, 1918) – eastern Venezuela and adjacent Guyana C. r. viridissimus (Chapman, FM, 1939) – tepuis of southern Venezuela (high plateau of Auyán-tepui) C. r. nigriceps (Blake, ER, 1941) – Acari Mountains (southern Guyana and adjacent southern Suriname) C. r. trinitatis (Ridgway, R, 1911) – Trinidad C. r. tobagensis (Ridgway, R, 1911) – Tobago C. r. gularis (Hargitt, E, 1889) – Colombia (central and western Andes) C. r. rubripileus (Salvadori, AT & Festa, E, 1900) – far southwestern Colombia to western Ecuador and northwestern...