Lophospingus

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

Lophospingus
Grey-crested finch (Lophospingus griseocristatus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Lophospingus Cabanis, 1878
Type species
Gubernatrix pusilla Burmeister, 1860

These finches are mostly gray and have prominent upstanding crests. They live in open habitats in southern South America.^[1]

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Lophospingus was introduced in 1878 by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis with the black-crested finch as the type species.^[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" and spingos meaning "finch".^[4]

The genus contains two species:^[5]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Lophospingus griseocristatus	Grey-crested finch	Bolivia and northwestern Argentina
	Lophospingus pusillus	Black-crested finch	Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina.