3, see text Chloropicus is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are native to Sub-Saharan Africa.

The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with the fire-bellied woodpecker (Chloropicus pyrrhogaster) as the type species.

[2] The word Chloropicus is from the Greek khlōros meaning green and pikos meaning woodpecker.

[3] Molecular genetic studies have shown that the genus Chloropicus is sister to the genus Dendropicos.

[4][5] Species in this genus were previously sometimes assigned to Dendropicos.