Vidua is a genus of passerine birds in the family Viduidae.
The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the pin-tailed whydah. The name Vidua is a Latin word meaning "widow".
The genus contains 19 species:
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|120px ||Vidua chalybeata|| Village indigobird || Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
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|120px ||Vidua purpurascens|| Purple indigobird || Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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| ||Vidua raricola|| Jambandu indigobird || Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Togo.
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| ||Vidua larvaticola|| Barka indigobird || Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan.
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|120px ||Vidua funerea|| Dusky indigobird || Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
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| ||Vidua codringtoni|| Zambezi indigobird || Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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|||Vidua wilsoni|| Wilson's indigobird || Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Togo.
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| ||Vidua nigeriae|| Quailfinch indigobird || The Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon.
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| ||Vidua maryae|| Jos Plateau indigobird || Nigeria
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|||Vidua camerunensis|| Cameroon indigobird || Sierra Leone to east Cameroon, north east Zaire and South Sudan.
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|120px ||Vidua macroura|| Pin-tailed whydah || Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
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|120px ||Vidua hypocherina|| Steel-blue whydah || Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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|120px || Vidua fischeri|| Straw-tailed whydah || Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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|120px ||Vidua regia|| Shaft-tailed whydah || Southern Africa, from south Angola to south Mozambique
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|120px ||Vidua paradisaea|| Long-tailed paradise whydah || Eastern Africa, from eastern South Sudan to southern Angola
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| ||Vidua orientalis|| Sahel paradise whydah || west Africa
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|120px ||Vidua interjecta|| Exclamatory paradise whydah || Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, and Togo.
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| ||Vidua togoensis|| Togo paradise whydah || Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
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|120px ||Vidua obtusa || Broad-tailed paradise whydah || Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
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Members of this genus brood-parasitise estrilid finches. Estrildidae is the sister family to Viduidae.