Erythrotriorchis is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Species It contains the following species:
Etymology "Erythro-" is from a Greek word for "red", and "triorchis" meant a kind of hawk thought to have three testicles. For further details see Eutriorchis.
Taxonomy Latham described the red goshawk as Falco radiatus in 1801. Sharpe definedAs cited by Peters: Erythrotriorchis in 1875 as a new monotypic genus for Falco radiatus.
Peters also included E. doriae in the genus, p. 225 though Doria's goshawk is now classified separately as Megatriorchis doriae.
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