Leuconotopicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae native to North and South America. Species in this genus were previously assigned to Picoides. The name of the genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845. The word Leuconotopicus is from the Greek leukos meaning white, nōton back and pikos woodpecker. The genus contains the following six species:
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0