Spiderhunter

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

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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:

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