Aimophila
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Rufous Crowned Sparrow A.r. eremoeca Texas.jpg
| image_caption = Rufous-crowned sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps)
| taxon = Aimophila
| authority = Swainson, 1837
| type_species = Pipilo rufescens{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=232 |title= Passerellidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}
| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1827
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
Aimophila is a genus of American sparrows. The derivation of the genus name is from aimos/αιμος "thicket" and phila/φιλα "loving".{{cite book |title=Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names |author=Holloway JE|year=2003 |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon |isbn=0-88192-600-0 |page=17}}
Some species that were formerly classified in Aimophila are now considered to be in the genus Peucaea.{{cite journal|last=DaCosta|first=Jeffrey M.|author2=Spellman, Garth M.|author3=Escalante, Patricia|author4=Klicka, John|title=A molecular systematic revision of two historically problematic songbird clades: Aimophila and Pipilo|journal=Journal of Avian Biology|date=1 March 2009|volume=40|issue=2|pages=206–216|doi=10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04514.x|url=http://128.197.80.10/JAB2009.pdf|access-date=15 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201173314/http://128.197.80.10/JAB2009.pdf|archive-date=2014-02-01|url-status=dead}}
Species in taxonomic order
{{Species table |genus=Aimophila |authority-name= Swainson|authority-year= 1837 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Rufous-crowned sparrow |binomial=Aimophila ruficeps
|image=File:Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps) (20342481992).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Cassin|authority-year= 1852 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= southwestern United States and Mexico
|range-image=File:Aimophila ruficeps map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
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|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Twelve subspecies |bullets=on
| A. r. ruficeps
| A. r. canescens
| A. r. obscura
| A. r. sanctorum
| A. r. sororia
| A. r. scottii
| A. r. rupicola
| A. r. simulans
| A. r. eremoeca
| A. r. fusca
| A. r. boucardi
| A. r. australis
}}
}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Oaxaca sparrow |binomial=Aimophila notosticta
|image=File:Aimophila notosticta 1.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Sclater, PL & Salvin |authority-year= 1868|authority-not-original=yes
|range= Mexico
|range-image=File:Aimophila notosticta map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/row
|name=Rusty sparrow |binomial=Aimophila rufescens
|image=File:Rusty Sparrow, El Triunfo, Mexico (16583752214) (cropped).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Swainson |authority-year=1827 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.
|range-image=File:Aimophila rufescens map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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References
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