Pheucticus is a genus of grosbeaks containing six species.
The genus was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850. The type species was subsequently designated as the black-backed grosbeak.
Species
The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek φευκτικός - pheuktikós "shy" or "inclined to avoid".
Genus Pheucticus – Reichenbach, 1850 – six species
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Yellow grosbeak
Pheucticus chrysopeplus (Vigors, 1832)
Pacific slope of Mexico from central Sonora to northwestern Oaxaca, and in southern Chiapas and Guatemala
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Black-thighed grosbeak
Pheucticus tibialis Lawrence, 1867
Costa Rica and western Panama.
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Golden grosbeak
Pheucticus chrysogaster (Lesson, 1832)
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
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Five subspecies
P. a. meridensis Riley, 1905
P. a. uropygialis Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1871
P. a. crissalis Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1877
P. a. terminalis Chapman, 1919
P. a. aureoventris (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
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Rose-breasted grosbeak Male
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Pheucticus ludovicianus (Linnaeus, 1766)
east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and Venezuela.
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