Loriotus

Loriotus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Tachyphonus.

Loriotus
Flame-crested tanager male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Loriotus Jarocki, 1821
Type species
Tanagra cristata Linnaeus, 1766
Species
3, see list

Taxonomy and species list

The three species now assigned to Loriotus were traditionally placed in the genus Tachyphonus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that Tachyphonus was polyphyletic.^[1] In the subsequent reorganization the genus Loriotus was resurrected for these three species.^[1][2][3] The genus had been introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki with the flame-crested tanager as the type species.^[4] The name is derived from the French word loriot that is used for the Old World orioles.^[5]

The three species in the genus are:^[3]

Male	Female	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
		Flame-crested tanager	Loriotus cristatus	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
		Yellow-crested tanager	Loriotus rufiventer	Peru, Acre and northwestern Bolivia
		White-shouldered tanager	Loriotus luctuosus	Honduras to Panama, South America south to Ecuador and southern Brazil, and on Trinidad.