Driophlox

Driophlox is a genus of passerine birds in the family Cardinalidae. The four species placed in this genus were formerly placed with the red-crowned ant tanager in the genus Habia.

Driophlox
Sooty ant tanager (Driophlox fuscicauda)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Driophlox Scott, BF, Chesser, Unitt & Burns, KJ, 2024
Type species
Phoenicothraupis gutturalis Sooty ant tanager Sclater, PL, 1854

Taxonomy

The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed with the red-crowned ant tanager in the genus Habia. Molecular phylogenetic analysis found that the genus Habia was paraphyletic.^[1][2] To resolve the paraphyly, four species were moved from Habia to a new genus Driophlox that was erected with Phoenicothraupis gutturalis Sclater, PL, 1854, (the sooty ant tanager) as the type species.^[3][4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek δριος/drios meaning "thicket" or "copse" with φλοξ/phlox, φλογος/phlogos meaning "flame".^[5]

The genus contains four species:^[4]

Genus Driophlox – Scott, BF, Chesser, Unitt & Burns, KJ, 2024 – four species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Red-throated ant tanager Male Female	Driophlox fuscicauda (Cabanis, 1861) Six subspecies D. f. salvini (Berlepsch, 1883) D. f. insularis (Salvin, 1888) D. f. discolor (Ridgway, 1901) D. f. fuscicauda (Cabanis, 1861) D. f. willisi (Parkes, 1969) D. f. erythrolaema (Sclater, PL, 1862)	eastern Mexico to northern Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-cheeked ant tanager	Driophlox atrimaxillaris (Dwight & Griscom, 1924)	Costa Rica	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Sooty ant tanager Male	Driophlox gutturalis (Sclater, PL, 1854)	Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Crested ant tanager	Driophlox cristata (Lawrence, 1875)	Colombia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC