Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Meiglyptes. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Meiglyptes tristis 18227
Buff-rumped Woodpecker Meiglyptes grammithorax is split from Zebra (formerly Buff-rumped) Woodpecker M. tristis (Clements 2007:260)
Summary: The Zebra Woodpecker is now yet another rare endemic to Java. It remains little-known and its vocalizations especially need documentation.
Details: Meiglyptes grammithorax of the Malayan region was originally described as a separate species in 1862, long after the 1821 description of M. tristis, although tristis even then was seemingly much rarer (Malherbe 1862) and with a much more limited distribution, being restricted to Java. Hesse (1912) treated grammithorax as a subspecies of tristis, however, and this has been followed since, until split by del Hoyo and Collar (2014). Several differences in plumage were outlined by del Hoyo and Collar (2014) and the two taxa may differ vocally, but further recordings of tristis and analyses will be needed to substantiate this. The marked plumage differences between grammithorax and the rare Javan endemic tristis have led the WGAC, followed by Clements et al. (2023) and Gill et al. (2023, IOC v.13.2), to agree with their treatment as two species.
English names: The English name Zebra Woodpecker for Javan M. tristis suggested by Eaton et al. (2016) highlights its bolder barring and aligns with Gill et al. (2023, IOC v.13.2). The much more widely distributed daughter species M. grammithorax retains the apt and familiar name Buff-rumped Woodpecker.
Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Link)
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
This looks fine to commit - or could be deleted, as there are no obs of tristis to move. The range of tristis has now been extended to East Java