Buccanodon Gymnobucco Lybius Pogonornis Pogoniulus Stactolaema Trachyphonus Tricholaema Lybiidae is a family of birds also known as the African barbets.

The phylogenetic relationship between the African barbets and the eight other families in the order Piciformes is shown in the cladogram below.

[1][2] The number of species in each family is taken from the list maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela C. Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC).

A wide range of insects are taken, including ants, cicadas, dragonflies, crickets, locusts, beetles, moths and mantids.

Some of the species which require primary woodland are declining due to deforestation, occasionally to the benefit of close relatives.

It is not entirely resolved whether the Early to Middle Miocene genus Capitonides from Europe belongs to this family or the Asian barbets (now Megalaimidae).

Supposed fossil remains of Late Miocene Pogoniulus were found at Kohfidisch (Austria)[4] but are not yet thoroughly studied.