Hemithraupis

Hemithraupis is a small genus of passerine birds in the tanager family Thraupidae found in the forests of South America.

Hemithraupis
Rufous-headed tanager, Hemithraupis ruficapilla
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Hemithraupis Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Hylophilus ruficeps[1] = Nemosia ruficapilla zu Wied, 1831
Species
3, see text

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Hemithraupis was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the rufous-headed tanager as the type species.^[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hēmi meaning "half" or "small" with thraupis, an unknown small bird. In ornithology thraupis is used to denote a tanager.^[4]

Genus Hemithraupis – Cabanis, 1851 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Guira tanager Male Female	Hemithraupis guira (Linnaeus, 1766) Eight subspecies H. g. nigrigula (Boddaert, 1783) H. g. roraimae (Hellmayr, 1910) H. g. guirina (Sclater, PL, 1856) H. g. huambina Stolzmann, 1926 H. g. boliviana Zimmer, JT, 1947 H. g. amazonica Zimmer, JT, 1947 H. g. guira (Linnaeus, 1766) H. g. fosteri (Sharpe, 1905)	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rufous-headed tanager Male Female	Hemithraupis ruficapilla (Vieillot, 1818)	Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Yellow-backed tanager Male Female	Hemithraupis flavicollis (Vieillot, 1818) Eleven subspecies H. f. flavicollis - (Vieillot, 1818) H. f. ornata - (Nelson, 1912) H. f. albigularis - (Sclater, 1855) H. f. peruana - (Bonaparte, 1851) H. f. aurigularis - (Cherrie, 1916) H. f. hellmayri - (Berlepsch, 1912) H. f. sororia - (Zimmer, 1947) H. f. centralis - (Hellmayr, 1907) H. f. obidensis - (Parkes, Humphrey, 1963) H. f. melanoxantha - (Lichtenstein, 1823) H. f. insignis - (Sclater, 1856)	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC