Thlypopsis

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Thlypopsis
ThlypopsisSmit.jpg
Rufous-chested tanager (above); and buff-bellied tanager (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Thlypopsis
Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Nemosia fulvescens [1] = Nemosia sordida
Strickland, 1844
Species

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Thlypopsis is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Thlypopsis was introduced by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis in 1851. [2] The name combines the Ancient Greek thlupis, a word for an unknown small bird, and opsis meaning "appearance". [3] The type species was subsequently designated as the orange-headed tanager (Thlypopsis sordida). [4] [5]

The chestnut-headed tanager was formerly placed in the genus Pyrrhocoma and the superciliaried hemispingus in Hemispingus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that these two species were embedded in Thlypopsis. [6]

The genus contains eight species: [7]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Fulvous-headed Tanager - frutero cabecileonado (Thlypopsis fulviceps fulviceps).jpg Thlypopsis fulviceps Fulvous-headed tanager Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Mérida and Venezuelan Coastal Range.
Thlypopsis inornata - Buff-bellied Tanager (cropped).jpg Thlypopsis inornata Buff-bellied tanager Peru and far southern Ecuador
Thlypopsis sordida 233445962.jpg Thlypopsis sordida Orange-headed tanager Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
Pyrrhocoma ruficeps Chestnut-headed Tanager.jpg Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma (formerly assigned to Pyrrhocoma) Chestnut-headed tanager

east Paraguay, northeast Argentina, and south Brazil

Rust-and-yellowTanager.jpg Thlypopsis ruficeps Rust-and-yellow tanager Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru
Hemispingus superciliaris.jpg Thlypopsis superciliaris (formerly assigned to Hemispingus) Superciliaried hemispingus northern Andes
Thlypopsis ornata.jpg Thlypopsis ornata Rufous-chested tanager Ecuador, Peru and southwestern Colombia
Thlypopsis pectoralis - Brown-flanked Tanager; Huanuco, Peru.jpg Thlypopsis pectoralis Brown-flanked tanager Peru

References

  1. "Thraupidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1860). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 138.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 384. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 74.
  5. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 268.
  6. Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID   24583021.
  7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 October 2020.