Saltatricula

Saltatricula is a genus of South American seed-eating birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Saltatricula
Many-colored Chaco finch (Saltatricula multicolor)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Saltatricula Burmeister, 1861
Type species
Saltatricula multicolor Burmeister, 1861
Species
2, see text

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Saltatricula was introduced in 1861 by the German naturalist Hermann Burmeister with the many-colored Chaco finch as the type species.^[1][2] The name is a Latin diminutive of the genus Saltator that had been introduced by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.^[3]

The black-throated saltator was formerly included in the genus Saltator. It was moved Saltatricula based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 that found that the black-throated saltator was genetically distinct from the other members of the genus Saltator but was instead closely related to the many-colored Chaco finch.^[4][5]

The genus contains two species.^[5]

Genus Saltatricula – Burmeister, 1861 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Many-colored Chaco finch	Saltatricula multicolor (Burmeister, 1860)	Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black-throated saltator	Saltatricula atricollis (Vieillot, 1817)	Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC