2, see text Blythipicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Southeast Asia.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.

[2] The name was chosen to honour the English zoologist Edward Blyth whose name is combined with the Latin picus meaning "woodpecker".

[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the maroon woodpecker (Blythipicus rubiginosus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.

The genus Blythipicus is sister to a clade containing the genera Reinwardtipicus and Chrysocolaptes.