see text Campephilus is a genus of large American woodpeckers in the family Picidae.

[2] The genus Campephilus was introduced by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840, with the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) as the type species.

[3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek kampē meaning "caterpillar" and philos meaning "loving".

[4] The genus is placed in the tribe Campephilini in the subfamily Picinae and is sister to a clade containing woodpeckers from Southeast Asia in the genera Chrysocolaptes, Blythipicus, and Reinwardtipicus.

[5] The genus contains 12 species:[6] A fossil species, C. dalquesti, was described from bones found in Late Pleistocene deposits of Scurry County, Texas.