Microspingus

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| image_caption = Buff-throated warbling finch (Microspingus lateralis)

| taxon = Microspingus

| authority = Taczanowski, 1874

| type_species = Microspingus trifasciatus

| type_species_authority = Taczanowski, 1874

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Microspingus is a genus of warbler-like birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. They are found in highland forest in South America.

Taxonomy and species list

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014 found that the genus Poospiza was polyphyletic.{{cite journal| last1=Burns | first1=K.J. | last2=Shultz | first2=A.J. | last3=Title | first3=P.O. | last4=Mason | first4=N.A. | last5=Barker | first5=F.K. | last6=Klicka | first6=J. | last7=Lanyon | first7=S.M. | last8=Lovette | first8=I.J. | year=2014 | title=Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution| volume=75| pages=41–77 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006 | pmid=24583021 | bibcode=2014MolPE..75...41B | url=https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3613&context=biosci_pubs | url-access=subscription }} In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the genus Microspingus was resurrected. It had been introduced in 1874 by the Polish zoologist Władysław Taczanowski with the three-striped hemispingus as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Taczanowski | first=Władysław | author-link=Władysław Taczanowski | year=1874 | title=Description des oiseaux nouveaux de Pérou central | language=French | journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London | volume=1874 | pages=129–140 [132] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28502217 }}{{ cite journal | last1=Burns | first1=K.J. | last2=Unitt | first2=P. | last3=Mason | first3=N.A. | year=2016 | title=A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4088 | issue=3 | pages=329–354 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.2 | pmid=27394344 }}{{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 Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Tanagers and allies | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/tanagers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=26 October 2020 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mikros meaning "small" with spingos meaning "finch".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=254 }}

The genus Microspingus is the sister taxon to a clade containing the black-backed bush tanager in the monospecific genus Urothraupis and the Pardusco in the monospecific genus Nephelornis.

The genus contains eight species:

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
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120px	Buff-throated warbling finch	Microspingus lateralis	Brazil.
120px	Grey-throated warbling finch	Microspingus cabanisi	eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, far north-eastern Argentina, and Uruguay
120px	Rusty-browed warbling finch	Microspingus erythrophrys	Argentina and Bolivia
120px	Plain-tailed warbling finch	Microspingus alticola	Peru.
120px	Ringed warbling finch	Microspingus torquatus	Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
120px	Three-striped hemispingus	Microspingus trifasciatus	Bolivia and Peru.
120px	Black-capped warbling finch	Microspingus melanoleucus	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and western Uruguay.
120px	Cinereous warbling finch	Microspingus cinereus	Brazil.

References

Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Władysław Taczanowski