Rhopospina Cabanis, 1851

Burns, Kevin J., Unitt, Philip & Mason, Nicholas A., 2016, A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes), Zootaxa 4088 (3), pp. 329-354 : 333

1. Recognize a monospecific Rhopospina Cabanis, 1851

(type = Fringilla fruticeti Kittlitz, 1833 , currently Phrygilus fruticeti ), for Phrygilus fruticeti ( Fig. 1 ).

Because Rhopospina is feminine in gender and Phrygilus is masculine, the subspecies Phrygilus fruticeti peruvianus Zimmer, 1924 , becomes Rhopospina fruticeti peruviana .

Comments. Phrygilus is polyphyletic, and the type species of Phrygilus (P. g ay i) is distantly related to several species of Phrygilus (Burns et al. 2014, Fig. 4 ). Thus, a new genus-level taxonomy is needed for P. fruticeti as well as several other species of Phrygilus (see recommendations 2, 22, and 24 below).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Maximum clade credibility tree from the Bayesian analyses of Burns et al. (2014). Subfamilies Catamblyrhynchinae, Charitospizinae, Orchesticinae, Nemosiinae, Emberizoidinae, Porphyrospizinae, Hemithraupinae, Dacninae, and Saltatorinae shown. Branch lengths are proportional to the number of nucleotide substitutions, and only strongly supported nodes (> 70 maximum likelihood bootstrap or> 0.95 posterior probability) are shown. Nodes that fail to meet either support threshold are collapsed to polytomies. The posterior probability from the Bayesian analysis is given above the branch leading to each node, and the maximum likelihood bootstrap value is given below that branch. Circled numbers correspond to recommended changes described in the text. Names along the backbone represent the subfamily classification proposed in Burns et al. (2014). Names at terminals correspond to classification alternative 1 (from Table 1). Names in parentheses are used in Clements et al. (2015). Sister clades and polytomies are arranged from least to most speciose.

FIGURE 4. Maximum clade credibility tree from the Bayesian analyses of Burns et al. (2014). Subfamily Diglossinae shown. Labeling and format as in Fig. 1.