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: Image 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
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