Bolbopsittacini, Smith & Thom & Joseph, 2024

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 : 63-64

Bolbopsittacini , new tribe

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DIAGNOSIS: In accordance with Article 13.1.1, we note that diagnostic traits of Bolbopsittacini —the same as those of its sole genus and species, the Guaiabero Bolbopsittacus lunulatus —include the combination of the following: a small (~ 15 cm) parrot with a very short tail; proportionally broad, bicolored bill that is black distally and bluish gray proximally; predominantly green in plumage but with light blue around the face and a sexually dimorphic collar uniquely in parrots located across the mantle, which in males is blue concolorous with or slightly darker than blue of the face and in females is yellow with a black terminal band; yellow rump edged with black in females of B. l. mindanensis. We note convergent similarities in plumage with Cyclopsitta diophthalma , especially in the tone of blue about the face. In accordance with Article 13.1.2, we note that these differences have been well illustrated and described on many occasions in the literature and we cite as examples reference works on the world’s parrots (e.g., Forshaw and Knight, 2010; Juniper and Parr, 1998).

Type-genus Bolbopsittacus Salvadori, 1891 , Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum 20: 388, 503 – type species: Psittacus lunulatus Scopoli, 1786 = Bolbopsittacus lunulatus ( Salvadori, 1891) , by original designation.

TAXONOMIC POSITION OF TRIBE: Subfamily Agapornithinae of Family Psittaculidae .

COMPONENT GENERA: Monospecific including only Bolbopsittacus lunulatus (Scopoli, 1786) .

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION: Philippines.