see text Dicaeum is a genus of birds in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, a group of passerines tropical southern Asia and Australasia from India east to the Philippines and south to Australia.

The latter features reflect the importance of nectar in the diet of many species, although berries, spiders and insects are also taken.

2-4 eggs are laid, typically in a purse-like nest suspended from a tree.

The genus Dicaeum was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816.

[5] The type species was designated as the scarlet-backed flowerpecker by George Robert Gray in 1840.