Thlypopsis | |
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Rufous-chested tanager (above); and buff-bellied tanager (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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.
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]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Thlypopsis fulviceps | Fulvous-headed tanager | Venezuelan Coastal Range and far northern Colombia. | |
Thlypopsis inornata | Buff-bellied tanager | Peru and far southern Ecuador | |
Thlypopsis sordida | Orange-headed tanager | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. | |
Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma (formerly assigned to Pyrrhocoma) | Chestnut-headed tanager | east Paraguay, northeast Argentina, and south Brazil | |
Thlypopsis ruficeps | Rust-and-yellow tanager | Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru | |
Thlypopsis superciliaris (formerly assigned to Hemispingus) | Superciliaried hemispingus | Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela | |
Thlypopsis ornata | Rufous-chested tanager | Ecuador, Peru and southwestern Colombia | |
Thlypopsis pectoralis | Brown-flanked tanager | Peru | |
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