Cacicus

Belongs within: Icteridae.

Cacicus, the caciques, is a Neotropical genus of black-plumaged birds that construct pendent nests.

<==Cacicus Lacépède 1799F11 (see below for synonymy)
    |  i. s.: C. koepckeae Lowery & O’Neill 1965F11
    |         C. microrhynchus (Scalter & Salvin 1865 [=Cassiculus microrhynchus]F11
    |           |--C. m. microrhynchusF11
    |           `--C. m. pacificus Chapman 1915F11
    |         ‘Cassicus’ persicusSS66
    |--C. solitarius Vieillot 1816BKB15, F11 [=Cassicus solitariusF11, Archiplanus solitariusF11, Procacicus solitariusF11]
    `--+--+--C. chrysopterus (Vigors 1825)BKB15, F11 [=Xanthornus chrysopterusF11; incl. Archiplanus albirostrisF11]
       |  `--C. sclateri (Dubois 1887)BKB15, F11 [=Agelaeus sclateriF11, Archiplanus sclateriF11]
       `--+--+--+--C. cela (Linnaeus 1758)BKB15, F11 [=Parus celaF11]
          |  |  |    |--C. c. celaF11
          |  |  |    |--C. c. flavicrissus (Sclater 1860)F11
          |  |  |    `--C. c. vitellinus Lawrence 1864F11
          |  |  `--C. uropygialis Lafresnaye 1843BKB15, F11 [=Cassicus uropygialisF11]
          |  `--+--+--C. chrysonotus d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1838BKB15, F11 [=Cassicus chrysonotusF11, Archiplanus chrysonotusF11]
          |     |  `--C. leucoramphus (Bonaparte 1845)BKB15, F11 [=Xanthornus leucoramphusF11, Archiplanus leucoramphusF11]
          |     |       |--C. l. leucoramphusF11
          |     |       `--C. l. peruvianus Zimmer 1924F11
          |     `--+--C. haemorrhous (Linnaeus 1766)BKB15, F11 [=Oriolus haemorrhousF11]
          |        |    |--C. h. haemorrhousF11
          |        |    |--C. h. affinis Swainson 1834F11
          |        |    `--C. h. pachyrhynchus Berlepsch 1889F11
          |        `--+--C. latirostris (Swainson 1838)AP21, F11 (see below for synonymy)
          |           `--C. oseryi (Deville 1849)AP21, F11 [=Cassicus oseryiF11, Clypicterus oseryiBKB15, Psarocolius oseryiF11]
          `--+--C. melanicterus (Bonaparte 1825)BKB15, F11 [=Icterus melanicterusF11, Cassiculus melanicterusF11]
             `--Psarocolius Wagler 1827BKB15, F11
                  |  i. s.: P. cassini (Richmond 1898) [=Gymnostinops cassini]F11
                  |         P. guatimozinus (Bonaparte 1853) [=Ostinops guatimozinus, Gymnostinops guatimozinus]F11
                  |--+--P. wagleri (Gray 1844)BKB15, F11 [=Cacicus wagleriF11, Zarhynchus wagleriF11]
                  |  |    |--P. w. wagleriF11
                  |  |    `--P. w. ridgwayi (van Rossem 1934)F11 [=Zarhynchus wagleri ridgwayiE52]
                  |  `--+--P. angustifrons (Spix 1824)BKB15, F11 [=Cassicus angustifronsF11]
                  |     |    |--P. a. angustifronsF11
                  |     |    |--P. a. alfredi (Des Murs 1856) [incl. P. angustifrons australis]F11
                  |     |    |--P. a. atrocastaneus (Cabanis 1873)F11
                  |     |    |--P. a. neglectus (Chapman 1914)F11
                  |     |    |--P. a. oleagineus (Sclater 1883)F11
                  |     |    |--P. a. salmoni (Sclater 1883)F11
                  |     |    `--P. a. sincipitalis (Cabanis 1873)F11
                  |     `--P. atrovirens (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1838)BKB15, F11 [=Cassicus atrovirensF11]
                  `--+--P. decumanus (Pallas 1769)BKB15, F11 [=Xanthornus decumanusF11; incl. P. decumanus maculosusF11]
                     |    |--P. d. decumanusF11
                     |    |--P. d. insularis (de Dalmas 1900)F11
                     |    `--P. d. melanterus (Todd 1917)F11
                     `--+--P. viridis (Statius Müller 1776)BKB15, F11 [=Oriolus viridisF11; incl. P. v. flavescensF11]
                        `--+--P. montezuma (Lesson 1831)BKB15, F11 [=Cacicus montezumaF11, Gymnostinops montezumaF11]
                           `--+--P. bifasciatus (Spix 1824)BKB15, F11 [=Cassicus bifasciatusF11, Gymnostinops bifasciatusF11]
                              `--P. yuracares (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1838)BKB15, F11 (see below for synonymy)
                                   |--P. y. yuracaresF11
                                   `--P. y. neivae (Snethlage 1925) [=Gymnostinops neivae]F11

Cacicus Lacépède 1799^F11 [=Cassicus Illiger 1811^B94; incl. Archiplanus^F11, Clypicterus Bonaparte 1850^F11, Ocyalus Waterhouse 1841^F11, Procacicus Fraga 2005^F11; Cacicinae, Cassicinae]

Cacicus latirostris (Swainson 1838)^{AP21, F11} [=Cassicus latirostris^F11, Ocyalus latirostris^BKB15, Psarocolius latirostris^F11]

Psarocolius yuracares (d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1838)^{BKB15, F11} [=Cassicus yuracares^F11, Gymnostinops yuracares^F11]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

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

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[E52] Eisenmann, E. 1952. Annotated list of birds of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 117 (5): 1–62.

[F11] Fraga, R. M. 2011. Family Icteridae (New World blackbirds). 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. 684–807. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.

[SS66] Sclater, P. L., & O. Salvin. 1866. Catalogue of birds collected by Mr. E. Bartlett on the River Uyacali, Eastern Peru, with notes and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 175–201.