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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 = Nemosia sordida Strickland, 1844
Species
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Thlypopsis is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Taxonomy and species list

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

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.

The genus contains eight species:

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

References

1. "Thraupidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1860). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 138.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 384. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 74.
5. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 268.
6. Burns, K.J.; Shultz, A.J.; Title, P.O.; Mason, N.A.; Barker, F.K.; Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S.M.; Lovette, I.J. (2014). "Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75: 41–77. Bibcode:2014MolPE..75...41B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006. PMID 24583021.
7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 October 2020.

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