Wikipedia / Atlapetes
Wikipedia / Atlapetes
Atlapetes is a genus of birds in the New World sparrow family Passerellidae. The species are mainly found in montane forest from Mexico to northwestern Argentina.
Taxonomy and species
The genus Atlapetes was introduced in 1831 by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler to accommodate the rufous-capped brushfinch (Atlapetes pileatus). The genus name is from Ancient Greek and combines the mythical figure Atlas with petēs, meaning "flyer". Within the New World sparrow family Passerellidae the genus Atlapetes is sister to the genus Pipilo.
The genus contains 33 species:
Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
Atlapetes pileatus | montane Mexico | ||
Atlapetes albinucha | highlands of eastern Mexico to Colombia | ||
Atlapetes tibialis | |||
- | Atlapetes luteoviridis | montane Panama | |
Atlapetes albofrenatus | |||
Atlapetes melanocephalus | |||
Atlapetes semirufus | montane eastern Colombia end Venezuela | ||
Atlapetes flaviceps | Magdalena River valley | ||
Atlapetes fuscoolivaceus | southwestern Colombia | ||
- | Atlapetes leucopis | Ande of southern Colombia and eastern Ecuador | |
Atlapetes albiceps | southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru | ||
- | Atlapetes rufigenis | Andes of northwestern Peru | |
- | Atlapetes crassus | western slope of Andes of Colombia and Ecuador | |
- | Atlapetes tricolor | eastern Peruvian Andes | |
Atlapetes schistaceus | Andes of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador | ||
Atlapetes taczanowskii | Ande of central Peru | ||
Atlapetes pallidinucha | Andes of Colombia and Ecuador | ||
Atlapetes blancae | |||
Atlapetes latinuchus | Andes of Colombia to northern Peru | ||
- | Atlapetes nigrifrons | ||
Atlapetes leucopterus | Ecuador and northern Peru | ||
Atlapetes pallidiceps | south-central Ecuador | ||
- | Atlapetes seebohmi | southwestern Ecuador and northern Peru | |
Atlapetes nationi | southwestern Peru | ||
- | Atlapetes forbesi | Andes of south-central Peru | |
- | Atlapetes melanopsis | Andes of southeastern Peru | |
- | Atlapetes terborghi | ||
Atlapetes canigenis | Andes of southeastern Peru | ||
Atlapetes melanolaemus | Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia | ||
- | Atlapetes rufinucha | Bolivian Andes | |
- | Atlapetes fulviceps | Andes of Bolivia and northwestern Argentina | |
Atlapetes citrinellus | Andes of northwestern Argentina |
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