Red-capped Flowerpecker

Dicaeum geelvinkianum

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Dicaeidae
Genus
Dicaeum
eBird Code
recflo1

Subspecies (9)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum albopunctatum

    lowlands of south-central New Guinea and northwestern Torres Strait islands (northeastern Australia)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum diversum

    west-central New Guinea (Western Ranges and central portions of the central ranges)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum geelvinkianum

    Yapen and nearby Kurudu Island (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum maforense

    Numfor (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum misoriense

    Biak (Cenderawasih Bay, off northwestern New Guinea)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum obscurifrons

    western New Guinea (Wissel Lakes region)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum rubrigulare

    southern New Guinea (Palmer Junction to mouth of Fly River)

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum rubrocoronatum

    southeastern New Guinea

  • Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum

    Goodenough, Fergusson, and Dobu, in D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (off southeastern New Guinea)

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.