Asemospiza

Asemospiza is a genus of South American birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Asemospiza
Sooty grassquit (Asemospiza fuliginosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Asemospiza Burns, Unitt & Mason, 2016
Type species
Fringilla fuliginosa Wied, 1830
Species
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Taxonomy and species list

These species were formerly placed in the genus Tiaris. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tiaris was polyphyletic.^[1] In the resulting reorganization to create monophyletic genera, these two species were assigned to a new genus Asemospiza with the sooty grassquit as the type species.^[2] The name combines the Ancient Greek ἄσημος/asēmos meaning "without marks" with σπίζα/spiza meaning "finch".^[2][3] These two species are in the subfamily Coerebinae and form a sister clade to the Darwin's finches.^[1]

The species in the genus are:^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Asemospiza fuliginosa	Sooty grassquit	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
	Asemospiza obscura	Dull-coloured grassquit	Venezuela to Argentina