Euplectes is a genus of passerine bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae.

Birds in the genus Euplectes are referred to simply as bishops, but the journal editor felt that with that form the title might cause misunderstanding.

Traditionally, Euplectes is thought to contain two clades, with the bishops in one clade and the widowbirds in another.

In such places, it associates with other seed-eating birds, such as the house sparrow, the cape weaver, and Euplectes weavers.

It lays a single egg mostly in the nests of weavers, especially the village weaver and the bishops in the genus Euplectes.

The long-tailed widowbird is a member of the genus Euplectes, and therefore closely related to other species of widowbirds and bishops.

He was the first scientist to identify the bird Red Bishop (Euplectes orix franciscana (Isert)'.

They are different from other Euplectes species in that the males use only a simple nest ring in courtship and the females build and position the actual nests.

In 1829, William John Swainson created Euplectes, and moved the widowbirds and bishops from Fringilla into this new genus.

It and the fire-fronted bishop have occasionally been placed in the separate genus Taha but DNA places it in Euplectes, but with no close relatives.

The southern red bishop or red bishop (Euplectes orix) is a small passerine bird belonging to the bishop and widowbird genus Euplectes in the weaver family, the Ploceidae.

By experimental manipulation of tail length in widdow birds of the African genus Euplectes, Andersson has been able to alter both the extent to which males are favoured by females and their mating success (Andersson, 1982).

The Grenadier Weaver (Euplectes Orix Orix) by David Holmes Riverina Finch Society (Australia) Taxonomy/Origins: The Southern parts of Southern Africa near a permanent source of water.

ORANGE (NORTHERN RED) BISHOP, Euplectes franciscanus, Oranjewever A few at Awash NP, 1 near Arba Minch. 497.