page_title: Tanager
section_title: Group 2
hierarchical_section_title: Tanager / Systematics / Group 2
caption_attribution_description: Thraupis episcopus
context_page_description: The tanagers comprise the bird family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes. The family has an American distribution. The Thraupidae are the second-largest family of birds and represent about 4% of all avian species and 12% of the Neotropical birds.
  Traditionally, about 240 species of tanagers have been described, but the taxonomic treatment of this family's members is currently in a state of flux. As more of these birds are studied using modern molecular techniques, some genera are expected to be relocated elsewhere. Already, species in the genera Euphonia and Chlorophonia, which were once considered part of the tanager family, are now treated as members of the Fringillidae, in their own subfamily. Likewise, the genera Piranga, Chlorothraupis, and Habia appear to be members of the cardinal family, and have been reassigned to that family by the American Ornithological Society.
context_section_description: "Typical" colorful tanagers
  (a) Tropical canopy tanagers:
  Genus Thraupis -  T. abbas & T. episcopus at least
  Genus Sporathraupis (blue-capped tanager)
  Genus Pipraeidea (2 species)
  Genus Ixothraupis (5 species)
  Genus Chalcothraupis (golden-naped tanager)
  Genus Tangara (27 species)
  Genus Stilpnia (14 species)
  Genus Poecilostreptus (2 species)
  (b) "Tholospiza" - Darwin's finches, grassquits, atypical honeycreepers, and some seedeaters: The finch-like forms in this clade were formerly classified in the Emberizidae:
  Genus Geospiza – ground finches (six species)
  Genus Camarhynchus – tree finches (five species)
  Genus Platyspiza - vegetarian finch
  Genus Certhidea – warbler-finches (two species)
  Genus Pinaroloxias – Cocos finch
  Genus Melopyrrha – (3 species)
  Genus Coereba – bananaquit - formerly placed in its own family Coerebidae
  Genus Tiaris – yellow-faced grassquit
  Genus Phonipara – Cuban grassquit
  Genus Melanospiza – (two species)
  Genus Asemospiza – (two species)
  Genus Loxipasser – yellow-shouldered grassquit
  Genus Euneornis – orangequit
  Genus Loxigilla – (2 species)
  (c) Mountain tanagers:
  Genus Cyanicterus  – blue-backed tanager
  Genus Bangsia  – (six species)
  Genus Buthraupis  – hooded mountain tanager
  Genus Cnemathraupis – (two species)
  Genus Chlorornis – grass-green tanager
  Genus Wetmorethraupis  – orange-throated tanager
  Genus Anisognathus  – (five species)
  Genus Dubusia – (two species)
  Genus Pseudosaltator - rufous-bellied mountain tanager
  Genus Tephrophilus  – masked mountain tanager
  (d) Typical tanagers:
  Genus Thraupis - (nine species)
  Genus Pipraeidea  (two species)
  Genus Iridosornis (five species)
  (e) Typical multicolored tanagers (includes Paroaria, traditionally placed in either the Emberizidae or Cardinalidae):
  Genus Diuca (two species)
  Genus Lophospingus (two species)
  Genus Neothraupis – shrike-like tanager
  Genus Cissopis – magpie tanager
  Genus Paroaria (five or six species)
  Genus Schistochlamys  (two species)
  (f) Green and golden-collared honeycreepers:
  Genus Chlorophanes – green honeycreeper
  Genus Iridophanes  – golden-collared honeycreeper
  (g) Typical honeycreepers and relatives:
  Genus Tersina  – swallow tanager
  Genus Cyanerpes, the typical honeycreepers (four species)
  Genus Dacnis, the dacnises (nine species)
  
  (h) Basal lineages within group 2:
  Genus Chlorochrysa (three species)
  Genus Parkerthraustes – yellow-shouldered grosbeak (traditionally in the Cardinalidae, but biochemical evidence suggests it is a tanager)
  Genus Nemosia – (two species)
  Genus Compsothraupis – scarlet-throated tanager
  Genus Sericossypha – white-capped tanager
caption: Blue-grey tanager, Thraupis episcopus
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