7, see text Yungipicus is a genus of woodpeckers in the family Picidae native to Asia.

A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the pied woodpeckers published in 2015 found that the genus Dendrocopos was polyphyletic.

In the subsequent rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, seven species were moved to the resurrected genus Yungipicus.

[1][2] The genus had been introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854.

[4] The type species was designated by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 as a subspecies of the brown-capped pygmy woodpecker, Yungipicus nanus hardwickii.