Ixothraupis

Ixothraupis is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Ixothraupis
Rufous-throated tanager (Ixothraupis rufigula)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Ixothraupis Bonaparte, 1851
Type species
Tanagra punctata Linnaeus, 1766
Species
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Taxonomy and species list

These species were formerly placed in the genus Tangara. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tangara was polyphyletic.^[1] In the rearrangement to create monophyletic genera, the genus Ixothraupis was resurrected. It had been introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1851 with the spotted tanager as the type species.^[2][3] The name combines the Ancient Greek ixos meaning "mistletoe" with "thraupis", an unknown small bird.^[4]

The genus contains five species:^[5]

• Dotted tanager, Ixothraupis varia
• Rufous-throated tanager, Ixothraupis rufigula
• Spotted tanager, Ixothraupis punctata
• Speckled tanager, Ixothraupis guttata
• Yellow-bellied tanager, Ixothraupis xanthogastra