Prosopeia, Bonaparte, 1854

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 : 59

Prosopeia

Prosopeia (shining parrots) encompasses three species that are endemic to Fiji. They are large parrots dorsally green and ventrally red to yellow. Prosopeia likely colonized the archipelago at around 9.3 Mya (3.7–13.4), as this was the timeframe of its divergence from its common ancestor with Eunymphicus and Cyanoramphus (fig. 11). Prosopeia personata of Viti Levu diverged from P. tabuensis and P. splendens 5.9 Mya (2.3–8.9). Some authors ( Forshaw and Knight, 2010) consider P. splendens of Kadavu, Ono, Viti Levu, a subspecies of P. tabuensis of Vanua Levu, Kioa, Koro, and Gau. Our time-calibrated tree has the two species diverging at 2.8 Mya (1–4.4; fig. 11).