Thlypopsis

Thlypopsis is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Thlypopsis
Rufous-chested tanager (above); and buff-bellied tanager (below); illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Thlypopsis Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Nemosia fulvescens[1] = Nemosia sordida Strickland, 1844
Species
See text

Taxonomy and species list

The genus Thlypopsis was introduced by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis in 1851.^[2] The name combines the Ancient Greek thlupis, a word for an unknown small bird, and opsis meaning "appearance".^[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the orange-headed tanager (Thlypopsis sordida).^[4][5]

The chestnut-headed tanager was formerly placed in the genus Pyrrhocoma and the superciliaried hemispingus in Hemispingus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that these two species were embedded in Thlypopsis.^[6]

The genus contains eight species:^[7]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Thlypopsis fulviceps	Fulvous-headed tanager	Venezuelan Coastal Range and far northern Colombia.
	Thlypopsis inornata	Buff-bellied tanager	Peru and far southern Ecuador
	Thlypopsis sordida	Orange-headed tanager	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
	Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma (formerly assigned to Pyrrhocoma)	Chestnut-headed tanager	east Paraguay, northeast Argentina, and south Brazil
	Thlypopsis ruficeps	Rust-and-yellow tanager	Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru
	Thlypopsis superciliaris (formerly assigned to Hemispingus)	Superciliaried hemispingus	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
	Thlypopsis ornata	Rufous-chested tanager	Ecuador, Peru and southwestern Colombia
	Thlypopsis pectoralis	Brown-flanked tanager	Peru