Buthraupis

Hooded mountain tanager Buthraupis montana, copyright Kenton Reeder.

Belongs within: Thraupidae.

Buthraupis, mountain tanagers, is a genus of relatively large, social tanagers with short, stubby bills (Hilty 2011).

<==Buthraupis Cabanis 1851H11
| i. s.: B. wetmorei (Moore 1934)AP21, H11 [=Tephrophilus wetmoreiH11]
|--B. montana (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1837)JT12, H11 [=Aglaia montanaH11; incl. B. montana venezuelanaH11]
| |--B. m. montanaH11
| |--B. m. cucullata (Jardine & Selby 1842)H11
| |--B. m. cyanonota Berlepsch & Stolzmann 1896H11
| |--B. m. gigas (Bonaparte 1851)H11
| `--B. m. saturata Berlepsch & Stolzmann 1906H11
`--+--B. aureodorsalis Blake & Hocking 1974JT12, H11
`--B. eximia (Boissonneau 1840)JT12, H11 [=Tanagra eximiaH11]
|--B. e. eximiaH11
|--B. e. chloronota Sclater 1855H11
|--B. e. cyanocalyptra Moore 1934H11
`--B. e. zimmeri Moore 1934H11

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[AP21] Arlott, N., & B. van Perlo. 2021. Collins Birds of the World. William Collins.

[H11] Hilty, S. L. 2011. Family Thraupidae (tanagers). In: Hoyo, J. del, A. Elliott & D. A. Christie (eds) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 16. Tanagers to New World Blackbirds pp. 46–329. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

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