The African piculet (Verreauxia africana), sometimes placed in the genus Sasia, is a species of bird in the family Picidae.

[1] The African piculet was formally described in 1855 by the French naturalists Jules and Édouard Verreaux from a specimen collected in Gabon, West Africa.

[2][3] The African piculet is now the only species placed in the genus Verreauxia that was introduced in 1856 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.

The juvenile is similar to the adult but has grey or buffy tones mixed into the general hue of the plumage.

It is a relative of the woodpecker, and despite its small size, hammers its beak into branches and splits stems to get at beetle larvae.