Vidua

Vidua
Male pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Viduidae
Genus: Vidua
Cuvier, 1816
Type species
Emberiza vidua = Fringilla macroura
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

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Vidua is a genus of passerine birds in the family Viduidae.

The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the pin-tailed whydah. The name Vidua is a Latin word meaning "widow".

The genus contains 19 species:

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Vidua chalybeataVillage indigobirdAfrica south of the Sahara Desert.
Vidua purpurascensPurple indigobirdAngola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Vidua raricolaJambandu indigobirdBenin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Togo.
Vidua larvaticolaBarka indigobirdCameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan.
Vidua funereaDusky indigobirdAngola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Vidua codringtoniZambezi indigobirdMalawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Vidua wilsoniWilson's indigobirdCameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Togo.
Vidua nigeriaeQuailfinch indigobirdThe Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon.
Vidua maryaeJos Plateau indigobirdNigeria
Vidua camerunensisCameroon indigobirdSierra Leone to east Cameroon, north east Zaire and South Sudan.
Vidua macrouraPin-tailed whydahAfrica south of the Sahara Desert.
Vidua hypocherinaSteel-blue whydahEthiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Vidua fischeriStraw-tailed whydahEthiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Vidua regiaShaft-tailed whydahSouthern Africa, from south Angola to south Mozambique
Vidua paradisaeaLong-tailed paradise whydahEastern Africa, from eastern South Sudan to southern Angola
Vidua orientalisSahel paradise whydahwest Africa
Vidua interjectaExclamatory paradise whydahBenin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, and Togo.
Vidua togoensisTogo paradise whydahBenin, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Vidua obtusaBroad-tailed paradise whydahAngola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Members of this genus brood-parasitise estrilid finches. Estrildidae is the sister family to Viduidae.

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