Thlypopsis

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

Thlypopsis
Rufous-chested tanager (above); and buff-bellied tanager (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Thlypopsis
Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Nemosia sordida
Species

See text

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Thlypopsis was introduced by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis in 1851.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek thlupis, a word for an unknown small bird, and opsis meaning "appearance".[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the orange-headed tanager (Thlypopsis sordida).[3][4]

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.[5]

The genus contains eight species:[6]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Thlypopsis fulvicepsFulvous-headed tanagerVenezuelan Coastal Range and far northern Colombia.
Thlypopsis inornataBuff-bellied tanagerPeru and far southern Ecuador
Thlypopsis sordidaOrange-headed tanagerArgentina, 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 ruficepsRust-and-yellow tanagerArgentina, Bolivia, and Peru
Thlypopsis superciliaris (formerly assigned to Hemispingus)Superciliaried hemispingusVenezuela and Bolivia
Thlypopsis ornataRufous-chested tanagerEcuador, Peru and southwestern Colombia
Thlypopsis pectoralisBrown-flanked tanagerPeru

References

  1. Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1860). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German). Volume 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 138.
  2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 384. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 74.
  4. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 268.
  5. 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006.
  6. 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.
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