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. The name combines the Ancient Greek thlupis, a word for an unknown small bird, and opsis meaning "appearance". The type species was subsequently designated as the orange-headed tanager (Thlypopsis sordida).
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.
The genus contains eight species:
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Scientific name
Common name
Distribution
Thlypopsis fulviceps
Fulvous-headed tanager
Serranía del Perijá, Cordillera de Mérida and Venezuelan Coastal Range.
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
northern Andes
Thlypopsis ornata
Rufous-chested tanager
Ecuador, Peru and southwestern Colombia
Thlypopsis pectoralis
Brown-flanked tanager
Peru
