Orange-throated tanager
The orange-throated tanager ("Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron") is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is found very locally in humid forests around the Ecuador-Peru border. As a species it is considered threatened. The orange-throated tanager is the only member of the genus Wetmorethraupis, named after the ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. It is closely related to members of the genus "Bangsia". Taxonomy. The orange-throated tanager was formally described by George Lowery and John O'Neill in 1964. The authors placed the species in a new genus "Wetmorethraupis" to give the binomial name "Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron . The genus name honours the American ornithologist Alexander Wetmore by combining his name with the genus name Thraupis", the type genus of the tanager family Thraupidae. The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek "sterrhos " meaning "stiff" or "hard" with "pteron" meaning feather. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that "Wetmorethraupis" was the sister taxon to "Bangsia. The orange-throated tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.