Bolbopsittacus, Salvadori, 1891

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo, 2024, Revised Evolutionary And Taxonomic Synthesis For Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) Guided By Phylogenomic Analysis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (468), pp. 1-87 : 64

Bolbopsittacus

Bolbopsittacus lunulatus is a small green parrot with pale blue facial markings and is restricted to the Philippines. Our sampling has not addressed divergence within the species, which is currently divided into three subspecies (callainipictus, intermedius, and mindanensis). None of several recent studies of cryptic diversity in Philippine birds have addressed this species either (e.g., Peterson, 2006; Lohman et al., 2010; Hosner et al., 2014, 2018). Its phylogenetic placement as sister to Loriculus and Agapornis was well supported and stable across the phylogenomic trees and previous phylogenetic hypotheses for parrots (e.g., Wright et al., 2008).