Southern citril

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Southern citril

| image = Crithagra hyposticta RWD.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=Crithagra hyposticta |volume=2017 |page=e.T22720098A111242158 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22720098A111242158.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Crithagra

| species = hyposticta

| authority = (Reichenow, 1904)

| synonyms =Serinus hypostictus }}

The southern citril (Crithagra hyposticta) also known as Serinus hyposticus{{Cite book |last1=Ash |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8HcgKqIhdAC&dq=the+southern+citril&pg=PA364 |title=Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea: An Atlas of Distribution |last2=Atkins |first2=John |last3=Atkins |first3=John D. |date=2009-04-20 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4081-0979-3 |language=en}} is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is endemic to the eastern Afromontane.

The southern citril was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic.{{cite journal | last1=Zuccon | first1=Dario | last2=Prŷs-Jones | first2=Robert | last3=Rasmussen | first3=Pamela C. | last4=Ericson | first4=Per G.P. | year=2012 | title=The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=62 | issue=2 | pages=581–596 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002 | url=http://www.nrm.se/download/18.9ff3752132fdaeccb6800010935/Zuccon%20et%20al%202012.pdf | pmid=22023825}} The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the southern citril were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Finches, euphonias | work= World Bird List Version 5.2| url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/finches/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| access-date=5 June 2015 }}{{ cite journal | last=Swainson | first=William | author-link=William Swainson | year=1827 | title=On several forms in ornithology not hitherto defined | journal=Zoological Journal | volume=3 | page=348 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2339407 }}