Poospiza

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 : 336-338

13. Merge two species of Hemispingus [ Hemispingus rufosuperciliaris Blake & Hocking, 1974 , and H. goeringi (Sclater & Salvin, 1871) ] and the two species of Compsospiza Berlepsch, 1893 (type = Compsospiza garleppi Berlepsch, 1893 ) into a more restricted

Poospiza

(type = Emberiza nigrorufa d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837, currently Poospiza nigrorufa ) than is currently recognized, as Poospiza rufosuperciliaris , P. goeringi , P. baeri , and P. garleppi .

In addition to the above four species, this revised version of Poospiza includes the following five species currently recognized as belonging to Poospiza : P. hispaniolensis Bonaparte, 1850 , P. rubecula Salvin, 1895 , P. nigrorufa , P. boliviana Sharpe, 1888 , and P. ornata (Landbeck, 1865) .

Comments. Burns et al. (2014) recommended a different approach for the taxonomy of this clade. They advocated restricting Poospiza to P. boliviana , P. o r na t a, and P. nigrorufa only, retaining Compsospiza , applying the available name Orospingus Riley, 1922, to Hemispingus goeringi and H. rufosuperciliaris , and creating two new generic names, one for Poospiza hispaniolensis and one for Poospiza rubecula . In this paper, we present an alternative, simpler approach that does not require two additional new generic names.