Spiderhunters
Little Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Nectariniidae Genus: Arachnothera Temminck, 1826
Species
See text.

The spiderhunters are birds of the genus Arachnothera, part of the Sunbird family. They are confined to the Oriental zoogeographic region, occurring from India east to The Philippines and from the Himalayas south to Java; they reach their greatest species diversity in the Thai-Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

There are 11 species:

• Thick-billed Spiderhunter Arachnothera crassirostris
• Spectacled Spiderhunter Arachnothera flavigaster
• Long-billed Spiderhunter Arachnothera robusta
• Little Spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostra
• Yellow-eared Spiderhunter Arachnothera chrysogenys
• Naked-faced Spiderhunter Arachnothera clarae
• Grey-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera modesta - sometimes included in A. affinis
• Streaky-breasted Spiderhunter Arachnothera affinis
• Bornean Spiderhunter, Arachnothera everetti
• Streaked Spiderhunter Arachnothera magna
• Whitehead's Spiderhunter Arachnothera juliae

External links

• Spiderhunter videos on the Internet Bird Collection

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