Driophlox
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Habia gutturalis 267546048.jpg
| image_caption = Sooty ant tanager (Driophlox fuscicauda)
| taxon = Driophlox
| authority = Scott, BF, Chesser, Unitt & Burns, KJ, 2024
| type_species = Phoenicothraupis gutturalis
Sooty ant tanager
| type_species_authority = Sclater, PL, 1854
}}
Driophlox is a genus of passerine birds in the family Cardinalidae. The four species placed in this genus were formerly placed with the red-crowned ant tanager in the genus Habia.
Taxonomy
The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed with the red-crowned ant tanager in the genus Habia. Molecular phylogenetic analysis found that the genus Habia was paraphyletic.{{Cite journal | last1=Barker | first1=F.K. | last2=Burns | first2=K.J. | last3=Klicka | first3=J. | last4=Lanyon | first4=S.M. | last5=Lovette | first5=I.J. | date=2015 | title=New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies | journal=The Auk | volume=132 | issue=2 | pages=333-348 | doi=10.1642/AUK-14-110.1 | doi-access=free}}{{ cite thesis | last=Scott | first=B.F. | date=2022 | title=Phylogenetics of Cardinalidae and the impact of habitat, climate, and ecology on the evolution of color | publisher=San Diego State University | degree=MSc | url=https://digitalcollections.sdsu.edu/do/63714134-c4f9-45de-9f4d-7dff24b8e469 }} To resolve the paraphyly, four species were moved from Habia to a new genus Driophlox that was erected with Phoenicothraupis gutturalis Sclater, PL, 1854, (the sooty ant tanager) as the type species.{{Cite journal | last1=Scott | first1=B.F. | last2=Chesser | first2=R.T. | last3=Unitt | first3=P. | last4=Burns | first4=K.J. | date=2024 | title=Driophlox, a new genus of cardinalid (Aves: Passeriformes: Cardinalidae) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=5406 | issue=3 | pages=497-500 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5406.3.11}}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=July 2024 | title=Cardinals, grosbeaks and 'tanager' allies | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/cardinals/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=24 October 2024 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek δριος/drios meaning "thicket" or "copse" with φλοξ/phlox, φλογος/phlogos meaning "flame".{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Driophlox | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Driophlox | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=24 October 2024 }}
The genus contains four species:
{{Species table |genus= Driophlox |authority-name=Scott, BF, Chesser, Unitt & Burns, KJ |authority-year=2024 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Red-throated ant tanager |binomial=Driophlox fuscicauda
|image=File:Habia fuscicauda -Belize-8.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|image2 =File:Habia fuscicauda -near Rancho Naturalista, Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica -female-8.jpg|image2-caption=Female
|authority-name=Cabanis |authority-year=1861 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= eastern Mexico to northern Colombia
|range-image=File:Habia fuscicauda map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on
|D. f. salvini (Berlepsch, 1883)
| D. f. insularis (Salvin, 1888)
| D. f. discolor (Ridgway, 1901)
| D. f. fuscicauda (Cabanis, 1861)
| D. f. willisi (Parkes, 1969)
| D. f. erythrolaema (Sclater, PL, 1862)
}}
}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Black-cheeked ant tanager |binomial=Driophlox atrimaxillaris
|image=File:Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager - Rio Tigre - Costa Rica S4E9942 (26631235321) (cropped).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Dwight & Griscom |authority-year=1924 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Costa Rica
|range-image=File:Habia atrimaxillaris map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|hunting=
|iucn-status= NT
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{{Species table/row
|name=Sooty ant tanager |binomial=Driophlox gutturalis
|image=File:Sooty Ant-Tanager male with crest raised.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Male
|authority-name=Sclater, PL |authority-year=1854 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Colombia
|range-image=File:Habia gutturalis map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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{{Species table/row
|name= Crested ant tanager |binomial=Driophlox cristata
|image=File:Habia cristata Habia copetona Crested Ant-Tanager (8428154937).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Lawrence |authority-year=1875 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Colombia
|range-image=File:Habia cristata map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/end}}
References
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