Dyaphorophyia

Dyaphorophyia is a genus of birds in the wattle-eye family Platysteiridae. These insect-eating birds are found in tropical Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus Dyaphorophyia was introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. He did not specify a type species but in 1855 George Gray designated the type as Platysteira leucopygialis Fraser. This is a junior synonym of Platysteira castanea Fraser, the chestnut wattle-eye. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek διαφορος/diaphoros meaning "different" with φυω/phuō meaning "to produce".

The genus contains three species:

• Chestnut wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia castanea – Benin and southwestern Nigeria eastward to southeastern Sudan, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, and southward to northwestern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Zambia
• West African wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia hormophora – Sierra Leone to Togo
• White-spotted wattle-eye, Dyaphorophyia tonsa – forest of southern Ivory Coast to Nigeria, Gabon, and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo

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