Thlypopsis
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.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 | Chestnut-headed tanager | east Paraguay, northeast Argentina, and south Brazil | |
| Thlypopsis ruficeps | Rust-and-yellow tanager | Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru | |
| Thlypopsis superciliaris | Superciliaried hemispingus | northern Andes | |
| Thlypopsis ornata | Rufous-chested tanager | Ecuador, Peru and southwestern Colombia | |
| Thlypopsis pectoralis | Brown-flanked tanager | Peru |