Oreothlypis

Oreothlypis is a genus of New World warbler. Most members of this genus for formerly classified in the genus Vermivora. However, the species then in Vermivora were more closely related to the flame-throated warbler and crescent-chested warbler, then classed in Parula, than to other species of Vermivora.^[2] Initially, the new genus Leiothlypis was proposed for these species by Sangster in 2008,^[3] but the American Ornithologists' Union opted to classify them along with the flame-throated and crescent-chested warblers in the existing genus Oreothlypis, though accepted the change in 2019.^[4]

Oreothlypis
Flame-throated warbler (Oreothlypis gutturalis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Parulidae
Genus:	Oreothlypis Ridgway, 1884
Type species
Compsothlypis gutturalis[1] Cabanis, 1860
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Leiothlypis Sangster, 2008

Species

Genus Oreothlypis – Ridgway, 1884 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Flame-throated warbler	Oreothlypis gutturalis (Cabanis, 1861)	Costa Rica and western Panama	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Crescent-chested warbler	Oreothlypis superciliosa (Hartlaub, 1844)	northern Mexico to northern Nicaragua.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC