Bocage's Weaver
Ploceus temporalis (Bocage, 1880)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Xanthophilos temporalis = Ploceus temporalis – cropped image from plate XLI from G. E. Shelley's publication The birds of Africa (vol. 4, 1905); illustration by Henrik Grönvold.
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Open encyclopedia reference
Bocage's weaver (Ploceus temporalis) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae.
It is found in riparian zones of Angola, Southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northwestern Zambia. The riparian zones it inhabits includes swamps, marshes, and streamside vegetation, usually in areas with tall grasses and trees.
Breeding males possess a distinctive golden-yellow head and crown, with a long, thin, dusky-olive bib and cream-colored eyes. They are known to be colonial, with upwards of 30 nests, often suspended from branches over water. Their diet consists primarily of insects such as beetles and caterpillars.
The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Portuguese naturalist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage, who described the species in 1880.
Wikipedia contributors, Bocage's weaver; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T04:40:44.614098+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Ploceus temporalis (Bocage, 1880)
- Name authority
- (Bocage, 1880)
- Common name
- Bocage's Weaver
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Genus
- Ploceus
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyPloceidae Sundevall, 1836
- genusPloceus Cuvier, 1816
- speciesPloceus temporalis (Bocage, 1880)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Ploceus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Maxwell's Black WeaverPloceus albinucha (Bocage, 1876) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Strange WeaverPloceus alienus (Sharpe, 1902) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bar-winged WeaverPloceus angolensis (Bocage, 1878) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bates's WeaverPloceus batesi (Sharpe, 1908) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dark-backed WeaverPloceus bicolor Vieillot, 1819 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cape WeaverPloceus capensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Taveta WeaverPloceus castaneiceps (Sharpe, 1890) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ploceus flavipes (Chapin, 1916) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Giant WeaverPloceus grandis (G. R. Gray, 1844) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Asian Golden WeaverPloceus hypoxanthus (Sparrman, 1788) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Masked WeaverPloceus intermedius Rüppell, 1845 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Little WeaverPloceus luteolus (Lichtenstein, 1823) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=562334 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:4KH9M. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.