Chalcites

{{Short description|Genus of birds}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pipiwharauroa.jpg | image_caption = Shining bronze cuckoo (''Chalcites lucidus'') | taxon = Chalcites | authority = Lesson, RP, 1830 | type_species = '''''Cuculus plagosus''''' | type_species_authority = Latham, 1801 }}

'''''Chalcites''''' is a genus of Australasian cuckoos in the family Cuculidae. They were formerly placed in the genus ''Chrysococcyx''.

==Taxonomy== The genus ''Chalcites'' was introduced in 1830 by the French naturalist René Lesson. The type species is, by tautology, ''Cuculus chalcites'' which is a junior synonym of ''Cuculus plagosus'' Latham, now considered to be a subspecies of the shining bronze cuckoo (''Chalcites lucidus'').<ref>{{ cite book | last=Lesson | first=René | author-link=René Lesson | year=1830 | title=Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique | language=French | location=Paris | publisher=F.G. Levrault | page=152 (livraison 2) | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35997136 }} Published in 8 ''livraisons'' between 1830 and 1831. For the publication date see: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | page=119 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 }} </ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1940 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=4 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=30 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14476482 }}</ref> The genus name is from Ancient Greek χαλκιτης (''khalkitēs'') meaning "containing copper" or "coppery".<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=''Chalcites'' | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Chalcites | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=31 August 2024 }}</ref>

The cuckoos in this genus were formerly placed with group of Afro-Asian cuckoos in the genus ''Chrysococcyx''. They were moved to ''Chalcites'' based on differences in morphology and the lack of significant sexual dimorphism.<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 C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/turacos/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=31 August 2024}}</ref>

The genus contains eight species:<ref name=ioc/> * Long-billed cuckoo, ''Chalcites megarhynchus'' * Horsfield's bronze cuckoo, ''Chalcites basalis'' * Black-eared cuckoo, ''Chalcites osculans'' * Rufous-throated bronze cuckoo, ''Chalcites ruficollis'' * Shining bronze cuckoo, ''Chalcites lucidus'' * White-eared bronze cuckoo, ''Chalcites meyerii'' * Little bronze cuckoo, ''Chalcites minutillus'' * Pied bronze cuckoo, ''Chalcites crassirostris''

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Category:Chalcites Category:Bird genera Category:Taxa described in 1830 Category:Taxa named by René Lesson