Hapalopsittaca, Ridgway, 1912

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo, 2024, Revised Evolutionary And Taxonomic Synthesis For Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) Guided By Phylogenomic Analysis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (468), pp. 1-87 : 34

Hapalopsittaca

Hapalopsittaca is a low-diversity clade comprising four midsized species that occur in allopatry across humid forests of the Andes. Relationships among the species reflect a stepping-stone pattern across the linear distribution of the Andes. The first split, dated to 4.6 Mya (2.8–6), was between a northern clade containing H. amazonina , H. fuertesi , and H. pyrrhops from a southern lineage, H. melanotis , which occurs disjunctly along the eastern slopes of the Andes to Huánuco to Cusco, Peru, and La Paz to Cochabamba, Bolivia. The two remaining divergences occurred within the Pleistocene and resulted in the divergence of H. amazonina of the Colombian Andes from H. fuertesi of the Cordillera Central in western Colombia, and H. pyrrhops ranging from southern Ecuador to northern Peru.