Chrysothlypis

Chrysothlypis is a small genus of tanagers found in humid forests of southern Central America and the Chocó in South America. The males of these small birds are strikingly yellow and black or red and white, while the females are much duller.

Chrysothlypis
Scarlet-and-white tanager (Chrysothlypis salmoni)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Chrysothlypis Berlepsch, 1912
Type species
Tachyphonus chrysomelas Sclater & Salvin, 1869
Species
Chrysothlypis chrysomelas Chrysothlypis salmoni

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Chrysothlypis was introduced in 1912 by the German ornithologist Hans von Berlepsch with the black-and-yellow tanager as the type species.^[1][2] The name combines the Ancient Greek khrusos meaning "gold" with thlupis, an unknown bird.^[3]

The genus contains two species:^[4]

Genus Chrysothlypis – Berlepsch, 1912 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Black-and-yellow tanager	Chrysothlypis chrysomelas (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1869)	Costa Rica and Panama	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Scarlet-and-white tanager	Chrysothlypis salmoni (Sclater, PL, 1886)	Colombia and northern Ecuador.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC