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
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
See text

Taxonomy and species list

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
	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

References

1. "Thraupidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1860). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 138.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 384. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 74.
5. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 268.
6. 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. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID 24583021.
7. 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.