Aprosmictus, Gould, 1842

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo, 2024, Revised Evolutionary And Taxonomic Synthesis For Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) Guided By Phylogenomic Analysis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (468), pp. 1-87 : 49

Aprosmictus

Aprosmictus parrots are two predominantly green species with varying extents of red on the upper wing coverts. Aprosmictus erythropteru s of Australia and New Guinea has a black back and, in males, the most extensive red in the upper wing coverts, relative to the other species A. jonquillaceus of Timor, Roti, and Wetar, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia ( Forshaw and Knight, 2010). Both species have two generally accepted but poorly differentiated subspecies. Our estimate of divergence time between A. erythropterus and A. jonquillaceus was 2.3 Mya (1.3–3.2; fig. 10).